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

[Bardur A. <oca...@sc...>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:59:27AM +0100, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

> > > You can download the source from:
> > >
> > > http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jjhellst/extlib/
> > >
> > > It doesn't have many tests yet, just a few placeholders to demonstrate
> the
> > > file layout.
> >
> > Ok this looks great. The most important issue right now IMHO is
> > not how the test manager works, but where it lives in CVS.
> >
> > Nicolas said at one stage that the test suite shouldb't be
> > part of the distribution. Whether or not this is the case,
> > I would say it should be easily separable.
> >
> > IMHO test code and library code should be siblings,
> > the tests should be in a subdir of the src (just my opinion).
> 
> If Janne or anybody else is willing to take over the test suite CVS
> maintenance, I will give CVS write access.
> As for the repository, I prefer having it in a separate module, so anybody
> checking out extlib sources does not automaticaly get test suite too.
> Something like :
> 
> /CVSROOT
> /extlib-dev
> /extlib-test
> 

I'm wondering why you'd prefer to keep them separate...
Does it provide any tangible benefits?

(It certainly does have the drawback of making it more
cumbersome to keep the test suite and the library in
sync.)

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