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

[Blair Z. <bl...@or...>]

Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> 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.)

I agree that the two should be kept together to support code coding. 
Any additional steps that a developer has to do to check their new code 
  just gets in the way, even if it's done only once.

As practice, I don't think I know of any package that has a test suite 
that doesn't ship with it.  Most GNU software has a make test that you 
can run after you build it.

Regards,
Blair

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