#15575: Investigate Haskell rewrite of testsuite driver -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: tdammers | Owner: (none) Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Research | needed Component: Test Suite | Version: 8.4.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #15363 | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by lantti): I haven't yet given a proper look to exactly what we would need for the testsuite as whole, but from the actual test cases most (6033/6618) are using the test language and canned functionality provided by the testsuite driver and should be straight-forward to migrate automatically (for example by modifing the existing test language interpreter), some (577/6618) use their own makefiles to do various tasks that might need manual work or elevated levels of smartness to migrate. Few (8/6618) run plain bash commands that probably will be migrated manually just because writing the automation would take longer. For the driver code, I can't yet at this point even start guessing which tools would be the most suitable and which compatibility problems they would have between our supported platforms. Counting the number of special cases and workarounds in the current driver might not be the most fruitful way as our set of tools and libraries would be completely different and have different problem spots. I'll still need to do some reading... -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15575#comment:2 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler