smtp port for appserver tests is statically allocated

[Robert Collins]

This happens in configs/testrunner-appserver/mail-configure.zcml, which the overrides file for appserver configs includes.

We need to allocate it dynamically and then write to the zcml - which means we need to only *ever* process that zcml /after/ starting the mailer. (Or allocate it before reading the zcml and pass the socket around).

[Gary Poster (gary)]

Writing zcml dynamically doesn't sound that great to me. I don't know the context offhand so I don't have any concrete suggestions, but I'd want to make sure that there wasn't another, better approach before going down this path.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Gary Poster <email address hidden> wrote:
> Writing zcml dynamically doesn't sound that great to me.  I don't know
> the context offhand so I don't have any concrete suggestions, but I'd
> want to make sure that there wasn't another, better approach before
> going down this path.

If you can advise how to communicate this differently, that would be awesome:

configs/testrunner-appserver/mail-configure.zcml

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

We're moving forward on making LXC the recommended parallel-test environment; this bug is still relevant for a combination of hygiene and permitting non-LXC local parallel tests, but its not relevant for LXC based testing as each LXC container runs a single thread of tests and has isolated ip addresses