simonmarhaskell: > Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > >I'm all for this, if Roman and/or Don care to help -- thank you! A > >little readme to explain how to add a new test would be good. > > The testsuite is well documented on the wiki: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests > > >Ian and/or Simon may want to comment on dependencies, or technology (eg > >Haskell vs Python). > > To do this in Haskell would mean adding (back) regex support to the boot > libraries. Well, currently you can do a testsuite run with the boot libs, > in theory the testsuite could have additional dependencies, but it makes > things simpler if we keep boot deps == testsuite deps.
Oh, didn't Ian have a purely Haskell regex implementation? We could just drop that module into the testsuite -- rather than adding yet more python. Ian, is that still around? > I'm not completely against adding packages to the boot set, but very extra > package increases the validation time, which is something we're sensitive > to. > > I'd be inclined to do this in Python, unless it really is too painful. I just notice that we always regret choosing scripting languages in the long run, as the code grows and changes :) -- Don _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
