Hello I am trying to write a document on building a Plone site for research labs (a step-by-step doc). Having done some experiments with old versions of Plone or Zope, I realized that some products were difficult to install (due to lots of dependencies ...) with an old python such as the one in Zope 2.6.2. Well, I decided to get all last versions : zope 2.7b3 (source) CMF 1.4.2 (tarball, I already had it) Plone 2.0 RC2 (tarball, I already had it) and ... Python 2.3.2 (source) First of all, please note that I use now (it was different with zope 2.6.2 which had its own python + libs) my "system" python. By the way, I wonder if this is a problem ... Well let's now come to my REAL problem : tests. 1 - PYTHON Well, I first installed python 2.3.2 from sources and then did some tests : cd /usr/lib/python2.3/test python testall.py -> everything is ok (but for some tests which seem to "normally" fail under "Linux2" whatever it is and the NIS one). Nice ... I now have a 2.3.2 python with working Tk modules and so on (the last python I had installed from scratch, the 2.2.2 had some problems due to my install process) 2 - ZOPE I install it "locally" : ./configure make instance Which installs Zope in its own source directory. Moreover it seems to use the "system" python by default (ie /usr/local/bin/python + /usr/local/lib/python2.3 directory). Then I go for some tests ... export ZOPE=$HOME/Zope <- the install directory cd $ZOPE python test.py (very, 2219 tests, all is ok, 2/3 warnings) but THEN it gets more complicated : bin/testrunner.py -a -q -d $ZOPE/lib/python and then ... VERY LONG, 2508 tests, 12 errors !! (all in zLOG by the way), some warnings Well I was quite puzzled then but ... well the ZMI seemed to work so ... let's go for CMF ! 3 - CMF With comparison with python and Zope, a very newbie-friendly install process : mv CMF-1.4.2/CMF* $ZOPE/lib/python/Products mv CMF-1.4.2/DCWorkflow $ZOPE/lib/python/Products All seem ok under the ZMI but ... I decide to go for some tests to be sure (I must be a masochist person ;)) ) cd $ZOPE bin/testrunner.py -a -q -d $ZOPE/lib/python/Products ... ... ... (yes : VERY VERY long) -> result ? 5833 tests (ok there is the CMF installed now) but : 225 errors + 3 failures !! (and lots of deprecation warnings) 4 - and Next ? I've installed Plone 2.0RC. It works. But ... all these failing tests make me ask myself if someday ... the hidden bug will appear ! :)) Did I miss something in my way of testing ? Pascal -- Pascal Poizat LaMI - UMR 8042 du CNRS / Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne Tour Evry 2, 523 place des terrasses de l'Agora, 91000 EVRY, France http://www.lami.univ-evry.fr/~poizat