On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 04:50:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
std.file's unit tests would break immediately. It wouldn't
surprise me
if std.socket's unit tests broke. std.datetime's unit tests
would
probably break on Posix systems, because some of them
temporarily set
the local time zone - which sets it for the whole program, not
just the
current thread (those tests aren't done on Windows, because
Windows only
lets you set it for the whole OS, not just the program). Any
tests which
aren't pure risk breakage due to changes in whatever global,
mutable
state they're accessing.
We really should think about separating Phobos tests into unit
tests and higher level ones (in separate top-level source folder).
The fact that importing std.file in my code with `rdmd -unittest`
may trigger file I/O makes me _extremely_ disgusted. How did we
even get here? >_<
