[Zope-dev] the zope, eggs and the testrunner

[whit]

I've been developping some packages using zope.testing and the 
testrunner that ships with zope2.10.  Yesterday, I packaged these using 
fairly standard python/egg pattern.  one package is pure python, the 
other a zope2/zope3 hybrid.

now I have two large PITAs:

1. in general, this would suck alot less if easyinstall would recognize 
I already have package x, y, and z on my PYTHONPATH, rather than 
helpfully installing incompatible ones or erroring out when it can't 
resolve zope dependency x from the ether.

Doesn't seem to be a --stop-sucking flag that I can find.  removing all 
the zopeish things like zope.interface and zope.testing solves this 
problem for the pure python package (but sort of make things like 
testing interfaces out of the question).


2. zopectl test doesn't see my tests with said packages installed in 
develop mode or as eggs (assorted --path etc options don't seem to 
help).   Running the tests via python setup.py test only works when I 
unflag the testing dependency of zope.testing.

anyone been down this rabbit hole? have any suggestions? resources?

-w

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