[Zope-dev] Re: buildout-based buildbot back

[Tres Seaver]

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Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:03:13PM -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:
>> Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>
>>> Also, I think that lack of a bin/test for any package can be rightly
>>> considered to be a bug.
>> 'bin/test' doesn't make much sense to me as a way to run the tests
>> belonging to the packge-being-tested:  it corresopnds to the tests for
>> an entire configured environment.
> 
> And that's what you get when you run bin/buildbot in a checkout of any
> zope.foo package -- an entire configured environment, sufficient for
> testing that package.  IMHO.
> 
>> I would think that getting 'python setup.py test' to work for each
>> package-being-tested, which a) makes sure that the package works even
>> for non-buildout-aware users, and b) fits what everybody else in the
>> Python eggs word expects.
> 
> That would be great.  Do you know how to make setup.py test invoke the
> zope.testing test runner?  The standard unittest test runner that
> setuptools uses by default is not sufficient -- it doesn't know anything
> about test layers.

Chris McDonough added support for 'setup.py test' to the ZODB trunk:

  http://svn.zope.org/ZODB/trunk/setup.py?rev=84132&view=markup

The set of tests which get run seems not to respect the '--all' flag,
even when I hack the 'alltests()' function to force it into the
testrunner optoins.


Tres.
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