Hi, Inspired by the reply to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62014612/how-to-test-a-racket-package-self-sufficiently, I decided to ask the question here. So a little background to the discussion. I've been looking at a racket package, and the package has a couple of collections. It's been dormant for a few years, and so when I ran the tests they didn't work (it's a driver, and the database it works with had moved on in the intervening time). So I started thinking about the tests. One thing that troubled me was that the tests seemed to be dependant on the package already being installed. Ryan Culpepper's comment on the stack overflow question (https://stackoverflow.com/a/62027185/11219) suggests that the tests should be run once the package is under raco pkg's management. Up until that point, I had been considering a PR rewiring the require statements to be significantly more relative.
In the generally excellent docs for racket, I haven't found advice relating to the right way to structure the tests for a package. Nor an idiomatic approach to dealing with package installation during package development. Here are my sources for reference: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2017/10/tutorial-creating-a-package.html https://beautifulracket.com/jsonic-3/the-package-server.html https://greghendershott.com/2013/12/racket-package-management.html http://www.greghendershott.com/2017/04/racket-makefiles.html Now I think I should explain why I'm thinking that way. FYI I've been a part of the ruby community, and so my thinking has a ruby-ish colour. Which makes me think I'm maybe off in my community norms for racket. I've always considered the point at which a package gets transferred into the domain of raco pkg's management to be a pivotal moment. It has this implied social contract that if I'm mixing with code into a system area managed by the language, the package needs to be trustworthy. Testing *after* installing seems a bit like I'm putting the cart before the horse? It feels like saying here's my code, put it in a system-wide place, I hope it works. So I'm interested in opinions and advice as to how to think correctly about testing packages and also how other people approach creating a well-behaved package. Regards Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/3c76b368-705e-43c4-a83d-843da3f596ec%40googlegroups.com.
