[Zope3-dev] layers can't be new style classes?

[Chris Withers]

Paul Winkler wrote:
>> Is this a bug in Philipp's article or in the testrunner?
> 
> I noticed the same thing when I wrote my zopewiki page
> (http://zopewiki.org/TestLayersHowTo)
> but it looks like new-style classes should work now,
> judging by this svn log message:
> 
> """
> r68925 | Zen | 2006-06-30 07:49:37 -0400 (Fri, 30 Jun 2006) | 3 lines
> 
> Fix ordering of testSetUp and testTearDown calls, and allow new style
> classes
> to be used as Layers by explicitly ignoring the object baseclass.
> """

Yes indeed...

> Also, at the time I wrote that page (in July), I wasn't aware of
> zope/testing/testrunner-layers-api.txt
> which would've saved me some trial and error.
> That may be the narrative you're looking for?
> I'll update the zopewiki page with a reference to that doc.
> 
> Looks like that file is shipped with Zope 2.10.0 and 2.9.5,
> but it wasn't in 2.9.4.  I haven't been living on the bleeding
> edge lately so I didn't see it.

Yup, the narrative I was missing is here:
http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing/testrunner-layers-api.txt?rev=70271&view=auto

I guess it's time for me to move to a newer zope.testing ;-)

cheers,

Chris

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