[Zope-Coders] Zope 2.6 breaks CMF Tests

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:50:24 -0500


Steve Alexander wrote:
>>
>> Indeed ;-) Surely this rather sudden change stands to break a lot of
>> things that use 'import Zope' to get Zope-ish things up and running?
> 
> 
> 
> Indeed again.
> 
> I suggest that "import Zope" prints a warning message to stderr, or uses 
> the Python Warnings API to print a warning that you need to run 
> Zope.startup() to get the previous behaviour.
> 
> Various documentation will be wrong now, including the "I have a hosed 
> object in my ZODB and need to fix it" docs.

See my message to Chris.  Zope.app() still works, so recovery scripts 
and utility scripts continue to work as before.  It really seems to be 
only unit tests that are affected.

Shane