On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:06:30AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:23 +1000, Peter Gammie wrote:
The arguments to the function are underspecified. What is the Bool?
It's not used. It means nothing. If it help, the value is always False :-)
If you do the archaeology and work it out I'd be interested to know. In Cabal-0.5 runTests is never called. In Cabal-1.1.1 it is always called with False.
In version 0.4 it has the type: runTests :: Bool -> IO ExitCode -- ^Used for @.\/setup test@
but it is never called and there's no other comment hinting at what it might be for. In version 0.2 it doesn't exist yet. So I've run out of clues.
I think it was intended to be for whether the tests were being run for the installed library, or for the library in the build tree. Thanks Ian