[Grok-dev] compattest recipe: automatically test dependencies

[Reinout van Rees]

Hi all,


I made an addition to z3c.recipe.compattest on the 
"reinout-requirements" branch.

Problem 1: normally you have to specify all the packages you want to 
test by hand in the ``include`` option.  If you have a new dependency, 
you can easily forget to list it.

Problem 2: we use plone.recipe.alltests, which tests everything testable 
that's available.  Problem is that you have to manually exclude a whole 
list of packages that have bad or non-runnable tests. With grok 1.0 we 
had to exclude some 15 zope.app.* packages, for instance, as their tests 
didn't run.

Solution: use z3c.recipe.compattest, but fill in the list of packages 
automatically. You specify one (or more) packages in 
``include-dependencies`` instead of ``include`` and 
z3c.recipe.compattest picks them up AND adds their dependencies you 
listed in setup.py.

Your compattest part can be as short as::

   [compattest]
   recipe = z3c.recipe.compattest
   include-dependencies = my.package

Assuming you've got your setup.py dependencies up to date (use 
z3c.dependencychecker!), your bin/compattest will test those packages 
that are most useful to test.  And if you add a dependency, your 
compattest will include it.

The branch is at:

http://svn.zope.org/repos/main/z3c.recipe.compattest/branches/reinout-requirements/


Is it OK for me to merge it? (Or for someone else to do it; including a 
release pretty please :-) )


Reinout


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