factoring out bzrlib.commands

[Jonathan Lange]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 16 Dec 2008, Barry Warsaw <barry at canonical.com> wrote:
>> bzr has a nice architecture for defining new commands, including
>> discovery, printing, getting help, defining arguments and so on.  Has
>> any thought been given into factoring this nice little bit of bzr out
>> into a separate package so that other programs could use it?  How tied
>> to the rest of bzr is it?
>
> It probably has some amount of accidental coupling, but no essential
> reason why it should be coupled.  If you'd like to separate it that
> would be nice.
>
> I think jml might have been doing something similar for selftest?
>

Some of the innovations in TestCase have been moved into testtools[1].
I did a bit of experimentation with decoupling the selftest runner,
but got blocked on a tangent, so none of that's around any more.
Someday though...

jml

[1] https://launchpad.net/testtools