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

[Janne H. <ja...@hy...>]

skaller wrote:
> 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.

After thinking about this a little, I think I'd still rather
go for the the simple assertion-based system I proposed.  This is 
because the framework is almost non-existent and thus doesn't take much 
time to implement (~none).

The assertion-based tests work well with other systems as well, and you 
could integrate these kinds of tests easily into a system that you were 
proposing -- just make sure you compile all these executables with 
asserts turned on.

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

Yes, much slower, depending on the tests.  Especially Cygwin where 
process invokation is dead slow for some reason.

The testing suite also needs to build and run easily on Windows.

Best regards,
Janne Hellsten