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ndmitchell / derive

A Haskell program and library to derive instances for data types
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Use cabal's test-suite section #2

Open Fuuzetsu opened 10 years ago

Fuuzetsu commented 10 years ago

It'd be great if the package could use cabal-supported tests: the existing way is quite inconvenient to run and cabal is not informed about the test dependencies that we need (json, QuickCheck, binarydefer, cereal). It also makes it very difficult to test the project inside a cabal sandbox.

ndmitchell commented 10 years ago

Agreed, that would be useful. I haven't done any significant work on the tests in derive in a long time, I think when I wrote them we didn't even have the test mechanism, which is why it doesn't currently use that.

ndmitchell commented 10 years ago

I have modified the Travis buildbot to run the generator test, which does work - running travis.sh is probably sufficient for the moment, but a proper cabal test would be better (although I'm not sure if calling GHC itself during the test suite is encouraged).