On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 15:14 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > If we'd like to add some flexibility we could allow tests to carry > > arbitrary tags: > > > > class TestInstance a where > > tags :: a -> [String] > > Just because GHC's testsuite distinguishes between ways and tests, I'm > not sure if Cabal's testsuite framework needs to do so. Ways could just > be encoded into the hierarchy, e.g. GHC's testsuite could include the > tests > typechecker.T5636.ghci > typechecker.T5636.opt > typechecker.T5636.prof > rather than the test > typechecker.T5636 > with 3 tagged variants. > > Perhaps having tags /as well/ would make sense, so > typechecker.T5636.ghci > would be tagged ["typechecker", "ghci"] and it would then be possible to > run 'all tests tagged "ghci"' or 'all tests tagged "typechecker"'.
Right, I was thinking of the latter, that each way is a separate test but that they're tagged so you know they're related in some way. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
