[ZODB-Dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Contents of Initial Data.fs in ZopeDistribution?

[Shane Hathaway]

Steve Alexander wrote:
> Casey Duncan wrote:
> 
>  > It is only there due to lack of time to take it out. We had planned to
>  > take it
>  > out for 2.6, but time was never made to replace it with code to
>  > bootstrap an
>  > empty storage with the proper root level elements still residing in
>  > Data.fs.in.
> 
> IIRC, the proper root level elements are now created in code.
> However, various unit tests of zope and 3rd party products rely on
> having a Data.fs.in.

FYI all dependencies of Zope unit tests on Data.fs* have been removed. 
See lib/python/Testing/custom_zodb.py, which is much simpler than it 
used to be.

Shane