[Zope-CMF] Re: removed meta_type attribute from type info classes

[Rob Miller]

howdy!

yuppie wrote:
> But there is an issue with unit tests: The PlacelessSetup tear down 
> removes the 'meta_type' attribute, no matter if it was added by 
> five:registerClass or if it existed before. If an other test that 
> doesn't use PlacelessSetup tries to access 
> FactoryTypeInformation.meta_type, this will return a wrong meta type.
> 
> In CMF itself this is no problem because CMF tests use PlacelessSetup if 
> they depend on those meta types. But if you run Archetypes unit tests 
> (or other non-PlacelessSetup tests that depend on meta_type) together 
> with the CMF tests you might see strange failures.
> 
> five:registerClass is written for classes without 'meta_type' attribute. 
> To support classes with 'meta_type' attribute properly, at least the 
> tear down code has to be changed. But I doubt it's worth the effort. If 
> you can work around this issue I'm fine with re-adding the attributes on 
> the 1.6 branch. And in 2.0 we don't have this problem anyway.

i can work around this.  thanks!

-r