Re: cabal test and detailed-0.9 strangeness

On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 19:26 -0600, Thomas Tuegel wrote:

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote:

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Which seems odd, since there are 2 test cases (not 0 as the output claims) and one of them should definitely be failing (it has a False in it). Am I doing something wrong?

Duncan and I made the decision to turn off the detailed type in the current release because it's not totally ready. You should get a warning to that effect when you run 'cabal configure --enable-tests' with a detailed-type test. Your tests are not actually passing; they're not even running, but Cabal is failing to produce a useful error message. This is at the top of my to-do list (though I realize that may be little consolation for your wasted time now).

I think Daniel is actually using Cabal HEAD which has the detailed-0.9 test type enabled. If one tries that test type with the release Cabal-1.10 then one does indeed get a warning at configure time. The behaviour with Cabal-1.10 is: $ cabal configure --enable-tests Resolving dependencies... Configuring zlib-0.5.3.1... Warning: 'detailed-0.9' is not a supported test suite version. The known test suite types are: exitcode-stdio-1.0 $ cabal test Running 1 test suites... 0 of 1 test suites (0 of 1 test cases) passed. Daniel can you check if you are indeed using Cabal HEAD or not? Duncan