[Windmill-dev] Hi, and a minor suggestion

[Kevin Dangoor]

Hi there,

I'm hoping that Windmill will be more pleasant than Selenium.  
(Selenium has its okay aspects, but I've also had a lot of pain with  
it.)

I'm just getting started with it, and I've got a very javascript-heavy  
app that uses Python on the server. (Actually most of the app is  
static HTML+JavaScript talking JSON-RPC to the server.) My goal is to  
be able to launch tests from the command line, have it fire up the  
server and run the tests against localhost.

I have a suggestion (and can provide a patch, if desired). I'm using  
zc.buildout for my project, and that does a good job of creating a  
controlled installation environment. It uses the setuptools  
console_scripts entry point to build scripts that are guaranteed to  
have the correct versions of packages. The windmill script, at least,  
can be converted to this style script trivially. Any reason to not do  
this?

Also, I have a curiousity: I've been using Nose for more than 2 years  
now, and this is the first I've seen of functest. I'm curious if  
anyone has done a comparison to what functest does vs. what nose does.

Thanks! Looks like a great project and I look forward to digging in  
and writing some tests (later today or early tomorrow).

Kevin