[Zope3-dev] MessageID as rocks?

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 05:59, Steve Alexander wrote:
> > One thing that I've been thinking about -- it would be helpful if the
> > tests honored products.zcml.  I'm not sure how easy that would be to
> > add, but right now I've got all the products checked out and I see lots
> > of failures in the news and zwiki products, even though I don't have
> > them enabled in my products.zcml.  It would be great if those product
> > tests weren't run.  Anybody else interested in this?
> 
> I'd like to see a way to run
> 
>    test what's needed before a zope.* checkin
> 
> At present, I'm not sure whether running
> 
>    python2.2 test.py zope
> 
> is sufficient, or whether I should run functional tests too, or what.
> 
> So, I'd like to be able to run
> 
>    python2.2 test.py prezopecheckin
> 
> and get it to do what is currently deemed necessary.
> 
> 
> Perhaps testing including products could be handled in a similar way?

It's tempting to extend test.py with ZConfig so that you can write a
configuration file for a specific set of tests.  Then it should be easy
to run the tests needed before a zope checkin, whatever those tests
happen to be and however you would spell them on the command line.

Jeremy