Use django-nose just to be a little less exotic.

constance/admin.py

@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ from django import forms
 from django.contrib import admin, messages
 from django.contrib.admin import widgets
 from django.contrib.admin.options import csrf_protect_m
-from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission
-from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
 from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
 from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
 from django.forms import fields
@@ -144,22 +142,3 @@ class Config(object):
 
 
 admin.site.register([Config], ConstanceAdmin)
-
-
-def install_perm():
-    """
-    Creates a fake content type and permission
-    to be able to check for permissions
-    """
-    if ContentType._meta.installed and Permission._meta.installed:
-        content_type, created = ContentType.objects.get_or_create(
-            name='config',
-            app_label='constance',
-            model='config')
-
-        permission, created = Permission.objects.get_or_create(
-            name='Can change config',
-            content_type=content_type,
-            codename='change_config')
-
-install_perm()

constance/models.py

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from django.db.models import get_models, signals
+
+
+def create_perm(app, created_models, verbosity, db, **kwargs):
+    """
+    Creates a fake content type and permission
+    to be able to check for permissions
+    """
+    from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission
+    from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
+
+    if ContentType._meta.installed and Permission._meta.installed:
+        content_type, created = ContentType.objects.get_or_create(
+            name='config',
+            app_label='constance',
+            model='config')
+
+        permission, created = Permission.objects.get_or_create(
+            name='Can change config',
+            content_type=content_type,
+            codename='change_config')
+
+
+signals.post_syncdb.connect(create_perm, dispatch_uid="constance.create_perm")

setup.py

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 import os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
+# work around to prevent http://bugs.python.org/issue15881 from showing up
+try:
+    import multiprocessing
+except ImportError:
+    pass
 
 try:
     f = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'README.rst'))
@@ -34,5 +39,5 @@ setup(
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests']),
     include_package_data=True,
     test_suite='tests.runtests.main',
-    test_requires=['django-discover-runner'],
+    test_requires=['django-nose'],
 )

tests/settings.py

@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@ import os
 from datetime import datetime, date, time
 from decimal import Decimal
 
-# using the parent directory as the base for the test discovery
-TEST_DISCOVER_TOP_LEVEL = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')
-
-TEST_RUNNER = 'discover_runner.DiscoverRunner'
+TEST_RUNNER = 'django_nose.NoseTestSuiteRunner'
 
 SECRET_KEY = 'cheese'
 
@@ -20,14 +17,16 @@ DATABASES = {
 }
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = (
+    'django.contrib.admin',
+    'django.contrib.auth',
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
     'django.contrib.sessions',
-    'django.contrib.auth',
-    'django.contrib.admin',
-    'south',
+    'django.contrib.messages',
 
     'constance',
     'constance.backends.database',
+    'south',
+    'django_nose',
 )
 
 ROOT_URLCONF = 'tests.urls'

tests/storage.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from datetime import datetime, date, time
 from decimal import Decimal
 
 
-class TestStorage(object):
+class StorageTestsMixin(object):
 
     def test_store(self):
         # read defaults

tests/test_admin.py

@@ -3,14 +3,13 @@ from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Permission
 from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
 from django.test import TestCase, RequestFactory
 
-from constance.admin import settings, Config, install_perm
+from constance.admin import settings, Config
 
 
 class TestAdmin(TestCase):
     model = Config
 
     def setUp(self):
-        install_perm()
         self.rf = RequestFactory()
         self.superuser = User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'nimda', 'a@a.cz')
         self.normaluser = User.objects.create_user('normal', 'nimda', 'b@b.cz')

tests/test_database.py

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ from django.test import TestCase
 from constance import settings
 from constance.config import Config
 
-from .storage import TestStorage
+from .storage import StorageTestsMixin
 
 
-class TestDatabase(TestCase, TestStorage):
+class TestDatabase(TestCase, StorageTestsMixin):
 
     def setUp(self):
         self.old_backend = settings.BACKEND

tests/test_redis.py

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ from django.test import TestCase
 from constance import settings
 from constance.config import Config
 
-from .storage import TestStorage
+from .storage import StorageTestsMixin
 
 
-class TestRedis(TestCase, TestStorage):
+class TestRedis(TestCase, StorageTestsMixin):
 
     def setUp(self):
         self.old_backend = settings.BACKEND