[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: test.py -s src/zope/something

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> A long time ago test.py -s accepted directory names.  Later it was
> changed to take package names instead.  There is some
> backwards-compatibility code that replaces slashes with dots, but it is
> incomplete: test.py -s src/zope would try to run the tests for a
> nonexistent package "src.zope".
> 
> I have expanded the backwards-compatibility/convenience code in a
> branch:
> 
>   http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/branches/filter-by-dirs/?rev=71986&view=rev
> 
> The test runner has a mapping of directory names to package names, and I
> use it in reverse to get the package name from the directory name.  As a
> result you can use your shell's directory name completion for the test
> runner command line, and, for example, test.py -s src/zope now works.
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone could check out this branch and run its
> tests on Windows.

C:\filter-by-dirs>python test.py
Running unit tests:
   Ran 129 tests with 0 failures and 0 errors in 17.259 seconds.


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