[ZODB-Dev] Repozo tests -- not

[Tres Seaver]

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Chris Withers wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>   - there were no tests for the existing code
> 
> There are tests, they're just manual and spew a lot of output even when 
> passing, but they do (as best I could tell) exercise the backup and 
> restore cycle quite heavily.

Jim is vetoing any changes to repozo until soembody updates that test to
run as an automated unit test.  I find this a strange exercise in
leadership:  this tool, which is important to much of the ZODB
community, happens to be one Jim *doesn't use at all* (because of ZRS).
 A sufficiently cynical observer might even squint at that and see a
potential conflict of interest.

> I ran these before and after to verify they didn't fail but did exhibit 
> the behaviour I was trying to fix before I started and didn't fail *and* 
> didn't exhibit the behaviour I was trying to fix after.
> 
>>   - Tres wrote a trivial test for the trivial fix
> 
> Indeed. His test exhibited the problem prior to the fix and showed it to 
> be fixed after. (since the problem was a warning generated on import)
> 
>>   - You now found some different problem in the same code,
> 
> ...but didn't say what it is. Jim seemed to hint it was a Python 3 
> problem. I'd warrant there are much more serious problems to be worrying 
> about for Python 3 first. If Python 3 compatibility is now a requirement 
> for any patches submitted, then we're well and truly fucked.

Sniffing at sys.versioninfo was a silly way to do the fix anyhow (I
think Jim even suggested it):  much better would have been to
conditionally import hashlib, and fall back to md6 only where it raises
an import error.


Tres.
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