[Zope-dev] Re: running test.py with instance_home products.

[Erik A.Dahl]

Or use this patch http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1233 that finds the 
config file via the environment variable  ZOPE_CONFIG during a normal 
import Zope; app=Zope.app() dance.

-EAD

On Mar 2, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:

> Chris Withers wrote:
>> Chris McDonough wrote:
>>> Has anyone found a reasonable strategy for using Zope's test.py to 
>>> test
>>> products that are installed outside the Zope software home?  I try
>>> running it from the software home and using the --dir option to 
>>> point it
>>> to where my product is, but it tells me it can't find any tests.
>> I think I run test.py (or somethign similar) from a shell script in 
>> which I set the PRODUCTS_PATH environment variable, as well as 
>> INSTACNE_HOME and SOFTWARE_HOME.
>> How shoudl I be looking to do that in Zope 2.7? ;-)
>
> test.py needs to grow a --config-file option;  if passed in, it should 
> do the Zope.startup() dance with the passed file, e.g.::
>
> ------------------------------- 8< ----------------------------------
> import Zope
> import App.config
> from Zope.Startup import handlers, options
>
> def installConfigFileForTesting(config_file)
>     opts = options.ZopeOptions()
>     opts.realize(args=('-C', config_file))
>     handlers.handleConfig(opts.configroot, opts.confighandlers)
>     App.config.setConfiguration(opts.configroot)
>     Zope.startup()
> ------------------------------- 8< ----------------------------------
>
>
> Tres.
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