[Zope] Re: [Zope-Annce] Zope 2.5.0 beta 4 released

Evan Simpson evan@4-am.com
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:29:04 -0500


Roland C. Reumerman wrote:
> Yes, it does bomb out. And no, I don't get any traceback.
> Is there a way to disable these unit tests during an install run?
> 
>> From: Eron Lloyd <lloyd@lancaster.lib.pa.us>
>> Those SyntaxError exceptions relate to unittests in the standard Python
>> libraries. Unfortunately they print out to stdout (and make the unknowing
>> user think there is a problem) and aren't surpressed by Zope's 
>> installer. It
>> seems Zope runs the unit tests on install and these seem to be verbose 
>> for
>> some reason (I haven't looked into it to deeply yet).


\>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
>>
>> >!!! There were errors during Python module compilation.
>> > 
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
>>
>> >!!!
>> >
>> > Any clue what goes wrong?

As the message says, there were syntax errors in unit tests discovered 
during module compilation.  The installer pre-compiles all *.py files 
(test or not) for speed.  The tests are not actually being run.

Cheers,

Evan @ Zope