On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:30:17 +0000, Dicebot wrote: > tl: dr: please, no > > We have put quite some effort into fighting default DMD behaviour of > -unittest simply adding to main function and not replacing it. > Initially many applications did run tests on startup because DMD > suggested it is a good idea - some rather bad practical experience has > shown this was a rather bad suggestion. Accidental tests that start > doing I/O on productions servers, considerably increased restart times > for services - that kind of issues. > > And if you suggest to build both test and normal build as part of single > compiler call (building test version silently in the background) this is > also very confusing addition hardly worth its gain. > > Just tweak your editors if that is truly important. It is not like being > able to click some fancy lines in GUI makes critical usability addition > to testing.
ah, i see. * building new phobos version now: several seconds. * building new phobos version with unittests now: several minutes. with your suggesion: * building new phobos version: several minutes. * building new phobos version with unittests: several minutes. yep, it's great. i was dreamt of such long compile sessions since i learned that compilers can be fast.
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