RE: Controlled anarchy, was Re: Data.* collections maintenance

On 21 October 2005 21:12, Jacques Carette wrote:

I would strongly recommend against 'allow everyone to just commit' without the presence of a large automated test suite which is used to (automatically) reject code that breaks a test.

pre-commit testing using GHC isn't really practical; it would be a huge bottleneck. The asynchronous testing we have right now (full testsuite every night) is a better compromise. However, online testing of libraries using Hugs might be do-able. It would make a nice little project if anyone's interested. I would happily run a bunch of Hugs tests before committing a library change if it was done either with a single command or automatically by the checkin. Cheers, Simon