[Zope-dev] zc.recipe.testrunner 1.4.0 no longer supports environment option?

[Gary Poster]

On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Michael Howitz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a test section in buildout (version 1.5.2) which uses the environment option to get os.environ configs into the test script.
> But the environment configuration does not show up in the generated script.
> 
> The recipe I use is zc.recipe.testrunner 1.4.0 and Python 2.5 (virtualenv).
> 
> When running the tests of zc.recipe.testrunner with this Python many of them fail including the test for the environment option.

Not inherently surprising nor necessarily indicative of a problem in the test suite.  Some of the things that the test suite tests are not supported with virtualenv (specifically, the tests for using a system Python).  That said, the underlying recipe functionality should work, so the answer to the next question is...

> Is it intensional that zc.recipe.testrunner does not run when using a virtualenv'ed Python?

...no.

I may get a chance to investigate this over the next few weeks, but I'm afraid I can't promise anything.

> P.S.: The Bugtracker of this project https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.recipe.testrunner is currently disabled, so I was unable to put this there.

I think I registered the project so I could make a branch of it in Launchpad.  I'm neither the author nor the maintainer of the package.  I'm happy to transfer the Launchpad project to whomever makes sense.

Gary