On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:22:28PM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > | Right, if we used pcre-light then it wouldn't be tested when validating, > | as pcre-light isn't a bootlib. Also, if that's a C wrapper then it's > | probably more hassle for people on Windows than a Haskell regex library > | would be. > | > | For the examples you listed, it looks to me like isInfixOf, filter, > | length etc would suffice, though. Writing a Python script to do it is > | another option. > > it'd be ok for the eyeball tests to be omitted on validation. They > may well wobble around too, and it'd be good not to expose validators > to that
I would have thought that the tests could be made reasonably robust, so that if you were making a patch that caused the test to wobble then 99% of the time you'd want to check any of these tests that fail, to confirm you hadn't regressed something. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
