Thanks Jon.  I will try the zope lists.

Actually, I started here, because plone-setup seems to have a lot of
knowledge about buildout and zope products.  Plone has made this same
transition of moving from old-style zope products to eggs in the past, and I
was hoping to find someone with a memory that extends back to those days ;)

  -- Jeff

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Jon Stahl <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jeff!
>
> These are totally reasonable questions (to which I don't know the
> answers, unfortunately).  But this is a pretty low-volume list
> dedicated to the setup and installationof Plone.  It's not a great
> place to get lots of smart Zope eyeballs on questions about custom
> development and testing.
>
> The most appropriate list for your question is probably the zope-users
> list at https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope, unless Plone is
> involved, in which case the general Plone-users list
> (http://plone.org/support/forums/general) is probably the place to go.
>
> Good luck!
>
> :jon
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Jeff Kunce <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > If I can get some answers here, wonderful!  If not, I would be very happy
> > with some pointers to other places where I might ask these questions.
> But
> > PLEASE somebody help me! :)
> >
> > I am working on a large/old Zope 2 project that is gradually migrating to
> > newer technology. Its current state is:
> >   - Zope 2.13
> >   - deployed with buildout
> >   - [almost] all 3rd-party products used are downloaded/installed as eggs
> >   - all internal products are "old-style" - installed in
> > ./parts/[instance]/Products/
> >   - lots of additional dtml/zsql/etc that gets stuffed in the ZODB with a
> > custom loader
> >
> > We are gradually moving the random dtml/zsql into products.  We will
> > eventually eggify those products.  But my immediate task is to add
> > automatable unit tests to our existing products.
> >
> > I have instructions for using zc.recipe.testrunner on egg-based products
> > with buildout + Zope 2.13.
> > I have instructions for using ZopeTestCase on old-style products in Zope
> 2.9
> > and earlier
> > But I am stuck in the generation-gap between those two scenarios.
> >
> > My question: how do I test old-style Zope Products in a newish
> > buildout-generated Zope?
> >  - Are there some magic settings for using zc.recipe.testrunner with
> > old-style products?
> >  - Does anyone have the key to making ZopeTestCase run under buildout +
> Zope
> > 2.13?
> >  - Any other ideas?
> >
> > I don't need much - just an example of how to wire things up.  Or, worst
> > case, a definitive "No, there is no solution except to eggify your
> > products."
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> >   -- Jeff
> >
> >
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