On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:39:21PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > I've only seen one package that actually uses tests integrated into the > Setup.hs. So it seems everyone just runs tests manually. This is a > fairly large hole in the Cabal story at the moment imho. > > Part of the problem is that we don't support custom Setup.hs stuff very > well, we encourage people to use the simple build system. But for tests, > even if it used the simple build system we'd end up making it use the > custom flavour just to run some tests. It's not very satisfactory. > > I wonder if we shouldn't move tests into their own file completely. The > problem always with custom Setup.hs scripts is that they're the first > point of entry, and if it does not compile then everything is stuffed > and you don't get a good error message.
Yes, I think a file-level hook for tests is the way to go. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
