all referncing tests to not use globals
- tests that deal with pickle specifically load the fixture classes
from test.lib.pickleable, which gets some more classes added
- removed weird sa05 pickling tests that don't matter
access to the cls/self.tables/classes registries
- express orm/_base.py ORMTest in terms of engine/_base.py TablesTest,
factor out common steps into TablesTest, remove AltEngineTest as a
separate class. will further consolidate these base classes
- Added "sorted_tables" accessor to MetaData, which returns
Table objects sorted in order of dependency as a list.
This deprecates the MetaData.table_iterator() method.
The "reverse=False" keyword argument has also been
removed from util.sort_tables(); use the Python
'reversed' function to reverse the results.
[ticket:1033]
- @unsupported now only accepts a single target and demands a reason
for not running the test.
- @exclude also demands an exclusion reason
- Greatly expanded @testing.requires.<feature>, eliminating many
decorators in the suite and signficantly easing integration of
multi-driver support.
- New ORM test base class, and a featureful base for mapped tests
- Usage of 'global' for shared setup going away, * imports as well
Mike Bayer