[Zope-dev] IRC discussion about testing

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Jim Fulton<jim at zope.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jim Fulton<jim at zope.com> wrote:
> ...
>> - The versions specified in the controlled-packages.cfg don't seem to
>>  be honored except for the package being tested. For example,
>>  ZODB3-3.9.0b2 is used for test-kgs-ZODB3, but 3.9.0b5 is used for
>>  everything else.  Fortunately, it appears I can work around this
>>  using a buildout versions section.
>
> Except that there's a bug in buildout that causes extras to be dropped
> when versions are specified via a versions section.  This causes the
> extras to be omitted from the test scripts. :( Hopefully, I'll get a
> fixed buildout release out tomorrow.

Done

> The good news is that with a hacked buildout and a versions section, I
> can run tests for all of the packages in
> http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/about/packages.html except for
> zope.ucol.  I'm getting test failures in 5 packages. I suspect that
> these are due to missing dependencies.

So, I created a KGS based on the ZTK and Fabio's recipe.  If you want
to try it, check out
svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zopetoolkit/branches/jim-kgs/kgs.

(I still think we want a simpler way to configure this, as proposed in
an earlier message today.)

Jim

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Jim Fulton