[Python-checkins] peps: Addition of 'open issues' to PEP 417

[michael.foord]

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/dece9beaf6c0
changeset:   4127:dece9beaf6c0
user:        Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk>
date:        Mon Mar 12 15:13:48 2012 -0700
summary:
  Addition of 'open issues' to PEP 417

files:
  pep-0417.txt |  20 ++++++++++++++++----
  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0417.txt b/pep-0417.txt
--- a/pep-0417.txt
+++ b/pep-0417.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 Abstract
 
-    This PEP proposes adding the mock [1]_  testing library
+    This PEP proposes adding the mock [1]  testing library
     to the Python standard library as ``unittest.mock``.
 
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     suites. This is currently what we do in the Python test suite,
     where a standardised mock object library would be helpful.
     
-    There are many mock object libraries available for Python [2]_.
+    There are many mock object libraries available for Python [2].
     Of these, mock is overwhelmingly the most popular, with as many
     downloads on PyPI as the other mocking libraries combined.
     
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     and many developers / projects mimic this functionality
     (often incorrectly). A standardised way to do this, handling
     the complexity of patching in the presence of the descriptor
-    protocol (etc) is useful. People are asking for a "patch" [3]_
+    protocol (etc) is useful. People are asking for a "patch" [3]
     feature to unittest. Doing this via mock.patch is preferable
     to re-implementing part of this functionality in unittest.
 
@@ -46,11 +46,23 @@
 Background
     Addition of mock to the Python standard library was discussed
     and agreed to at the Python Language Summit 2012.
+
+
+Open Issues
+    As of release 0.8, which is current at the time of writing, 
+    mock is compatible with Python 2.4-3.2. Moving into the Python
+    standard library will allow for the removal of some Python 2
+    specific "compatibility hacks".
+    
+    mock 0.8 introduced a new feature, "auto-speccing", obsoletes
+    an older mock feature called "mocksignature". The 
+    "mocksignature" functionality can be removed from mock
+    altogether prior to inclusion.
     
 
 References
 
-    [1] `mock library on PyPI<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock>`_
+    [1] `mock library on PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock>`_
     [2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=mock&submit=search
     [3] http://bugs.python.org/issue11664
 

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