zc.recipe.testrunner 4.1

ZC Buildout recipe for creating test runners

Contents

• Change History

  • 4.1 (2026-04-23)

  • 4.0 (2025-09-18)

  • 3.2 (2025-04-09)

  • 3.1 (2024-09-27)

  • 3.0 (2023-02-08)

  • 2.2 (2020-11-30)

  • 2.1 (2019-05-14)

  • 2.0.0 (2013-02-10)

  • 1.4.0 (2010-08-27)

  • 1.3.0 (2010-06-09)

  • 1.2.1 (2010-08-24)

  • 1.2.0 (2009-03-23)

  • 1.1.0 (2008-08-25)

  • 1.0.0 (2007-11-04)

  • 1.0.0b8 (2007-07-17)

  • 1.0.0b7 (2007-04-26)

  • 1.0.0b6 (2007-02-25)

  • 1.0.0b5 (2007-01-24)

  • 1.0.0b4 (2006-10-24)

  • 1.0.0b3 (2006-10-16)

  • 1.0.0b2

  • 1.0.0b1

  • 1.0.0a3

  • 1.0.0a2

  • 1.0.0a1

This recipe generates zope.testing test-runner scripts for testing a collection of eggs.

Example usage in buildout.cfg:

[buildout]
parts = test

[test]
recipe = zc.recipe.testrunner
eggs = <eggs to test>

Change History

4.1 (2026-04-23)

• Move package metadata from setup.py to pyproject.toml.

• Add support for Python 3.14.

• Drop support for Python 3.9.

• Replace pkg_resources usage with importlib.metadata.

4.0 (2025-09-18)

• Replace pkg_resources namespace with PEP 420 native namespace.

3.2 (2025-04-09)

• If distribution is not found, try its canonical name.

• If distribution is not found, explicitly show its name.

• Add support for Python 3.13.

• Drop support for Python 3.8.

3.1 (2024-09-27)

• Add support for Python 3.12.

• Drop support for Python 3.7.

• Fix tests to run successfully against newer setuptools versions.

3.0 (2023-02-08)

• Add support for Python 3.10, 3.11.

• Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6.

2.2 (2020-11-30)

• Add support for Python 3.9, PyPy2 and PyPy3.

2.1 (2019-05-14)

• Add support for Python 3.5 up to 3.8a3.

2.0.0 (2013-02-10)

Work with buildout 2.

This was accomplised by starting from 1.3.0 then:

• Merge fixes from 1.2.1 (svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.recipe.testrunner/tags/1.2.1) Excluding nailing zope.testing version. That fixes a bunch of windows issues

1.4.0 (2010-08-27)

• Update to using zc.buildout 1.5.0 script generation. This adds the following options: include-site-packages, allowed-eggs-from-site-packages, extends, and exec-sitecustomize.

• Merge fixes from 1.2.1 (svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.recipe.testrunner/tags/1.2.1) Excluding nailing zope.testing version. That fixes a bunch of windows issues

1.3.0 (2010-06-09)

• Updated tests to run with the last versions of all modules.

• Removed the usage of the deprecated zope.testing.doctest, therby also dropping Python 2.3 support.

• Started using zope.testrunner instead of zope.testing.testrunner.

1.2.1 (2010-08-24)

• Fixed a lot of windows issues

• Nailed versions to ZTK 1.0a2 (oh well, we have to have at least some stability)

• Fixed some other test failures that seemed to come from other packages

1.2.0 (2009-03-23)

• Added a relative-paths option to use egg, test, and working-directory paths relative to the test script.

1.1.0 (2008-08-25)

• Requiring at least zope.testing 3.6.0.

• Fixed a bug: Parallel runs of layers failed when using working-directory parameter.

1.0.0 (2007-11-04)

• Preparing stable release.

1.0.0b8 (2007-07-17)

• Added the ability to use initialization option that will be inserted into the bin/test after the environment is set up.

1.0.0b7 (2007-04-26)

Feature Changes

• Added optional option environment that allows defining a section in your buildout.cfg to specify environment variables that should be set before running the tests.

1.0.0b6 (2007-02-25)

Feature Changes

• If the working directory is not specified, or specified as the empty string, an empty part directory is created for the tests to run in.

1.0.0b5 (2007-01-24)

Bugs fixed

• When:

  • the working-directory option was used,

  • and the test runner needed to restart itself

  • and the test runner was run with a relative path (e.g. bin/test)

  then the testrunner could not restart itself successfully because the relative path in sys.argv[0] was no-longer valid.

  Now we convert sys.argv[0] to an absolute path.

1.0.0b4 (2006-10-24)

Feature Changes

• Added a working-directoy option to specify a working directory for the generated script.

1.0.0b3 (2006-10-16)

Updated to work with (not get a warning from) zc.buildout 1.0.0b10.

1.0.0b2

Added a defaults option to specify testrunner default options.

1.0.0b1

Updated to work with zc.buildout 1.0.0b5.

1.0.0a3

Added a defaults option that lets you specify test-runner default options.

1.0.0a2

Now provide a extra-paths option for including extra paths in test scripts. This is useful when eggs depend on Python packages not packaged as eggs.

1.0.0a1

Initial public version