Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building examples with Cabal

I think the parallel build requirement was a concern in the initial mail, if it is a single executable I assume it's going to be trickier. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Ozgur Akgun wrote:

Hi.

On 18 October 2013 08:07, Sven Panne wrote:

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The only missing part is some way to build tons of executables in parallel without writing a .cabal file of roughly the same size as "The Lord of the Rings" or a typical Stephen King novel...

If you have so many tests, why wouldn't you generate a single executable which takes the name of the test as an argument and runs that test?

Something like the following, with additional error checking and etc.

data Test = Foo | Bar | ... runTest :: Test -> IO () main = do (t:_) <- getArgs runTest (read t)

This is a pretty simple idea, just wanted to know why you don't go down this path instead.

HTH, Ozgur

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