[Zope-dev] Re: HEADS UP: QA Problems with Zope 2

[yuppie]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Christian Theune]
> ...
> 
>>I have a compiled Zope 2.8a2 around here, but I'm not able to run the
>>unit tests on it and I'm not willing to publish it therefore because I
>>have the suspicion that this branch never has seen windows before except
>>the one pass of unit tests before 2.8a1.
> 
> 
> FYI, I usually run the Zope trunk tests once a day, on WinXP.  None of
> this goes thru WinBuilders, though -- this is doing "test.py -vv
> --all" from the root of a trunk checkout immediately after "setup.py
> build_ext -i".

AFAICS the problem is that *everybody* runs the tests in-place. So 
nobody tests if setup.py installs Zope correctly and people often forget 
to make sure setup.py installs newly added packages and files.

Cheers, Yuppie