[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope egg dependencies and tests

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
> now there those wonderful eggs for Zope 3. Apart from the permission 
> problem we ran into lately there is another one with those eggs:
> 
> The dependencies aren't set right.
> 
> Apparently nobody every ran the tests of those eggs. This is no wonder. 
> When developing you need to checkout Zope 3 instead of the egg source. 
> The Zope 3 tests would pass of course since everything is in place there.
> 
> I think we should move the actual code to the eggs as soon as possible 
> and put the externals into the Zope 3 source. Otherwise nobody ever will 
> run the egg tests.
> 
> Also we need to take care of depending on certain versions. For instance 
> zope.location required a recent version of zope.proxy (>3.3).

I personally don't like these "exclusive dependencies" that say what you 
don't want. I'd rather spell it out as what I want. I think this 
dependency should ready >=3.4.

> And it's 
> definitely better to say "I need >3.3 but can't find it" during buildout 
> than "zope.proxy has no module named decorator" somewhere when starting 
> the application.

Agreed.

> So, how do we get out of this? :)

+1 on requiring running tests of individual projects

Perhaps we could also automate this using a buildbot...


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