[Zope-dev] Re: test.py

[Tres Seaver]

yuppie wrote:

> Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
>> test.py obsoleted testrunner.py as of Zope 2.7.  test.py was being used
>> by ZODB3 and Zope3 for a while before it was added to Zope 2.7.
> 
> 
> Why does setup.py still install testrunner.py, not test.py?
> 
> And BTW: Could *all* files necessary to run tests be installed?
> 
>> I'm not sure which #! line you mean, but I think you're right to say it
>> should be python 2.3.  All the software on the head requires python 2.3.
> 
> 
> Some grep results from Zope HEAD:
> 
> setup.py:                     #! /usr/bin/env python
> test.py:                      #! /usr/bin/env python2.2
> utilities\check_catalog.py:   #!/usr/bin/env python2.1
> utilities\requestprofiler.py: #!/usr/bin/env python
> utilities\compilezpy.py:      #!/usr/bin/env python
> utilities\zpasswd.py:         #!/usr/bin/env python
> utilities\testrunner.py:      #! /usr/bin/env python2.2
> utilities\ZODBTools\space.py: #! /usr/bin/env python
> 
> And many tests, some of them still with python1.5, e.g.
> 
> lib\python\TAL\tests\run.py:  #! /usr/bin/env python1.5
> 
> Could we have a policy for this? I guess '#! /usr/bin/env python' is 
> easier to keep up to date ...

-1.  We should specify the required minimum version everywhere.  The 
'env' hack is evil because it pretends to be flexible, while still 
leaving you vulnerable to strangeness.  BTW, the space after the '!' 
should go, too;  it is not guaranteed to be honored by all shells.

Tres.
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