[Zope3-dev] Zope3 tarball build/test run log

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Wed Jan 4 11:29:47 EST 2006


Brian Sutherland wrote:
...

 >>What are you trying to accomplish with this test?
 >
 >
 > This is the result of building and testing the tarball/multiple
 > tarballs. I started this because zope3 was breaking my schooltool
 > nightly tarball build too often.
 >
 > Practically all of my commits over the last months have been fixing
 > tarball setup breakage caught by this test.

Great!

...

> Yes, building and testing tarballs.

What does this mean?  What tar balls? Do you mean releases?

> Another interesting idea is testing old bodies of code against newer
> Zope 3 versions. For backwards compatibility. For example, schoolbell,
> released with Zope 3.1 fails its tests with Zope3.2.

I think this is a great idea.  We do this internally.  Of course,
it doesn't make sense to send schoolbell test failures to the Zope 3 list.
It does often make sense to raise breakage issues in the collector,
or on the list.

Jim

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