[Zope-Coders] Testing from an INSTANCE_HOME

[Shane Hathaway]

Toby Dickenson wrote:
>>I've seen discussion on this recently so thought I'd chime in.
>>It's has been impossible to run product tests from an INSTANCE_HOME
>>setup for some time now due to testrunner.py importing the Testing
>>package.

It sets INSTANCE_HOME so that Zope will use Testing/custom_zodb.py.

> Since that change, Ive been running product tests with:

It has been that way for a long time.  In fact, the test results were 
quite inconsistent until Testing took over custom_zodb.py by setting 
INSTANCE_HOME.

> env STUPID_LOG_FILE=/dev/stderr 
> PRODUCTS_PATH="%(PRODUCTS_PATH)s:/home/tdickenson/path/to/my/products" 
> python2.1 /path/to/zope/utilities/testrunner.py -d .
> 
> (minus line breaks)
> 
> I would be interested to know if there is a better way.

The Testing package needs some way to tell Zope to use a particular 
database configuration rather than what the user configured (overriding 
custom_zodb or ZConfig.)  If we can think of a way to vary the database 
configuration independently of INSTANCE_HOME, I'm all for it.

Shane