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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Setup mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-setup > > > > >
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