On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Richard G.
I think that, rather than having Cabal try to combine the results of different frameworks, Cabal should specify interfaces that frameworks need to conform to.
E.g., rather than integrating test-framework into Cabal so that HUnit works with it, modify HUnit so it emits the format that Cabal wants. And modify test-framework to emit the format that Cabal wants so, if someone can't convert their test suite to the CabalTest format, test-framework can act as an intermediary and handle the conversion of output.
I think this is what we've ultimately decided to do, although we have yet to decide exactly what format Cabal should expect test results to be in. I realize that it's a little difficult to follow this discussion, since the proposal was in a state of flux. I think you can read my proposal at the GSoC site, but the proposal submission form kinda mangled my formatting. There is a public Google Documents version of my proposal at https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZzNFnSY9FOeZGd6MnQ4cWNfM2Q2N2J0OWZn&hl=en which should be up-to-date and contain all the information you need. -- Thomas Tuegel