Comment 8 for bug 419691

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Robert Collins
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>  - similarly, some of our layers check invariants. how do we do that
> with testresources?
>
> Point me at some code, I'll have a think.
>

lib/canonical/testing/layers.py

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/db-devel/annotate/head:/lib/canonical/testing/layers.py

>  - zope.testing at least used to ignore any special suite you specified
> for your tests, which would mean testresources' OptimizingTestSuite
> would be useless during a transition.
>
> It rearranges things as it pulls the layers out. I have in my head an
> adapter for testresources to honour layers-as-resources, which would
> permit nuking zope.testing's layer support on day one.
>

That'd be aces.

>  - we need to define the resources launchpad tests need and come up with
> a transition strategy.
>
> I think an incremental approach might be easier to deploy.
>

Well, yes. That's what the comments are getting at. Could you please
expand on what you mean here?

jml