Here's a principled way to determine whether the BDBStorages are

available or not, and also fixes to all the tests so they won't crap
out or complain if not.

To test whether these storages are avialable (including all package
dependencies), do:

import BDBStorage
if BDBStorage.is_available:
    # okay to use

Also, in BDBStorage/__init__.py do some cross-platform compatibility
for the bsddb module; in Python 2.3 we can just use the built-in
module, but in earlier Pythons we have to use bsddb3.  Now you can
just use "from BDBStorage import db" to get the proper db object.

src/ZODB/tests/testStorageConfig.py

@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ import ZConfig.Context
 
 from ZODB import StorageConfig
 
-class StorageTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
-
+class StorageTestBase(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         unittest.TestCase.setUp(self)
         self.tmpfn = tempfile.mktemp()
@@ -51,6 +50,8 @@ class StorageTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         io = StringIO(text)
         return context.loadFile(io)
 
+
+class StorageTestCase(StorageTestBase):
     def testFileStorage(self):
         from ZODB.FileStorage import FileStorage
         sample = """
@@ -116,6 +117,8 @@ class StorageTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.storage = StorageConfig.createStorage(storageconf)
         self.assert_(isinstance(self.storage, DemoStorage))
 
+
+class BDBStorageTests(StorageTestBase):
     def testFullStorage(self):
         try:
             from BDBStorage.BDBFullStorage import BDBFullStorage
@@ -168,8 +171,15 @@ class StorageTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         # XXX _config isn't public
         self.assert_(self.storage._config.cachesize, 1000)
 
+
 def test_suite():
-    return unittest.makeSuite(StorageTestCase)
+    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
+    suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(StorageTestCase))
+    import BDBStorage
+    if BDBStorage.is_available:
+        suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(BDBStorageTests))
+    return suite
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main(defaultTest='test_suite')