Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Future of ExtLib

[skaller <sk...@us...>]

On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 11:34, Janne Hellsten wrote:

> It is somewhat unclear to me what we would gain by having all tests as 
> separate executables.  I believe this kind of a framework is well suited 
> for a program like GCC, but I believe it is a little overkill for Extlib.

> But then again, having this machinery might make it more easy and 
> convenient to add new tests into the suite.

That was my thought -- we want to encourage community
contribution, which I think implies being able to
write lots of little self contained tests, in particular
to actually check them separately.

However it is slower to run the tests this way
and needs more external machinery.


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