AW: [Zope3-dev] Why do we restrict our egg testing?

[Benji York]

Roger Ineichen wrote:
> Hi Benji
> 
>> Betreff: Re: [Zope3-dev] Why do we restrict our egg testing?
>>
>> Roger Ineichen wrote:
>>> Can anybody tell me why we restrict our test setup in zope eggs and 
>>> only use a subset of package for our test setup?
>> I don't know what you're asking, so I can't tell you why it is <wink>.
> 
> I mean, we don't use all zope packages in our test dependency
> if we develop eggs. What was the reason to use a subset of
> of zope packages for egg testing? 
> 
> e.g.
> extras_require = dict(
>         test = [
>             'zope.testbrowser',
>             'zope.app.securitypolicy',
>             'some more zope.* packages but why not all zope.*'
>             ],
>         ),

Two things.  extras are bad, and shouldn't be used, put test 
dependencies in the "real" dependencies.

Second, why would you include all of the zope.* eggs if that particular 
package doesn't depend on them?

> Is there a benefit to not depend on all zope.* packages
> in each egg test setup if we do a transition to indvidual
> packages?
> 
> I understand the benefit to have smaller dependencies
> in eggs, but I still think a egg should run all tests
> we have in the zope namespace. Like we did in our old
> trunk setup.

> This whould allow us to run all zope.* tests
> during egg development. 

It sounds like it would build the equivalent of the old-style Zope 3 
trunk for each and every zope.* buildout.  That sounds awful.  Perhaps 
I'm misunderstanding your proposal.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation