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.