Without this patch, if your tests are run under a `PYTHONOPTIMIZE=2` precompiled environment, they'd fail with this error because a new `.pyo` file would be created.:
FAIL: test_basic (openerp.addons.module_auto_update.tests.test_addon_hash.TestAddonHash)
Traceback (most recent call last):
` File "/opt/odoo/auto/addons/module_auto_update/tests/test_addon_hash.py", line 41, in test_basic
` 'static/src/some.js',
` AssertionError: Lists differ: ['README.rst', 'data/f1.xml', ... != ['README.rst', 'data/f1.xml', ...
`
` First differing element 13:
` models/stuff.pyo
` static/src/some.js
`
` First list contains 1 additional elements.
` First extra element 14:
` static/src/some.js
`
` ['README.rst',
` 'data/f1.xml',
` 'data/f2.xml',
` 'i18n/en.po',
` 'i18n/en_US.po',
` 'i18n/fr.po',
` 'i18n/fr_BE.po',
` 'i18n/test.pot',
` 'i18n_extra/en.po',
` 'i18n_extra/fr.po',
` 'i18n_extra/nl_NL.po',
` 'models/stuff.py',
` 'models/stuff.pyc',
` - 'models/stuff.pyo',
` 'static/src/some.js']
Ran 3 tests in 0.005s
FAILED
With this patch, the `.pyo` file is included, so tests will pass anywhere.
The previous implementation of this addon proved being extremely buggy:
- It supplied out of the box a enabled cron to update Odoo that didn't restart the server, which possibly meant that upgrades broke things.
- It overloaded standard Odoo upgrade methods that made i.e. installing an addon sometimes forced to upgrade all other addons in the database.
- The checksum system wasn't smart enough, and some files that didn't need a module upgrade triggered the upgrade.
- It was based on a dirhash library that was untested.
- Some updates were not detected properly.
- Storing a column into `ir.module.module` sometimes forbids uninstalling the addon.
Thanks to Stéphane Bidoul (ACSONE), now we have new methods to perform the same work in a safer and more stable way.
All I'm doing here is:
- Cron is disabled by default.
- Installed checksums are no longer saved at first install.
- Old installations should keep most functionality intact thanks to the migration script.
- Drop some duplicated tests.
- Allow module uninstallation by pre-removing the fields from ir.mode.model.
- When uninstalling the addon, the deprecated features will get removed for next installs always.
Besides that, fixes for the new implementation too:
- When uninstalling the addon, we remove the stored checksum data, so further installations work as if the addon was installed from scratch.