[Zope-Coders] Testing from an INSTANCE_HOME

[Chris Withers]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> What if we just decided that unit tests should not use Zope.app() to 
> open a database, but rather a new function called Testing.app()? 
> Testing.app() would return a clean database that unit tests are free to 
> change.  If all unit tests that use Zope.app() start using Testing.app() 
> instead, we won't need the custom_zodb.py hack and the Testing package 
> can leave INSTANCE_HOME alone.

I think this is a fantastic idea :-)

Test that want to be INSTANCE_HOME testable can use Testing.app(), those that 
don't care or want to maintain backward compatability can do what they're doing 
now...

cheers,

Chris