<div>On 10/31/06, Martin Pool <<a href="mailto:mbp@canonical.com">mbp@canonical.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> It would actually be better to have a non-blackbox test that only ran get_alias directly; you'll need to make sure of how to set up the right configuration for the scope of this call which may be slightly complicated.  Since we identified the unicode problem we should test unicode handling too. </blockquote></div> Hi, I was up for the challenge to write a non-blackbox test, but I ran into some troubles: It seems that the GlobalConfiguration gets read every time it is required. Should it not be read once (lazily) and be kept in memory? The reason this is problem for me is, that I can't modify the configuration which will be loaded by the get_alias method (in commands.py), since it read anew every time its called, and I don't really want to modify the conf file for this non-blackbox test. I also think it should be possible to set branch specific aliases, where the branch specific one over-rides the global one. I'll look into supporting this, If thats ok. regards Marius -- I code therefore I am.