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. Richard G. On 10-04-06 5:03 PM, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:
Rather that starting from scratch, you should strongly consider adapting something like test-framework to this task, as it already has done the heavy work of creating a way to combine tests from different frameworks into a single suite and includes such features as displaying a progress bar during the QuickCheck tests. Furthermore, it is easily extendable to support new kinds of tests; for example, I found that it was relatively straightforward to add a new kind of "statistical" test to make sure that the average value of a function where where it should be.
Cheers, Greg