[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining test-suite dependencies with cabal

[Tobias Dammers]

I have found that splitting functionality off into a library is way too
useful for a lot of things anyway, so I'd just do that.
On Aug 22, 2014 6:49 PM, "Bram Neijt" <bneijt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear reader,
>
> I have a single executable package in Cabal[1] and I have added a test
> for it using an example configuration from the ltc package[2].
>
> With my test on my executable I can't depend on the main package, but
> I seem to have to repeat the dependencies of my executable, or split
> off functionality into a library. [3]
>
> Can I easily depend on the dependencies of another package or should I
> create a library  and depend on that in my test and executable?
>
> All source is at: https://github.com/bneijt/after/
>
> Greetings,
>
> Bram
>
> [1] https://github.com/bneijt/after/blob/master/after.cabal
> [2] https://github.com/scvalex/ltc/blob/master/ltc.cabal
> [3] A part of my cabal file added below
>
> executable after
>     main-is:            Main.hs
>     build-depends:      base >=4.7 && <4.8,
>                         options ==1.*,
>                         directory ==1.2.*,
>                         parallel-io ==0.3.*,
>                         filepath ==1.3.*,
>                         unix ==2.7.*
>     hs-source-dirs:     src
>     ghc-options:        -Wall
>     default-language:   Haskell2010
>
>
> test-suite afterTests
>     hs-source-dirs:    test src
>     main-is:           AfterTest.hs
>     type:              exitcode-stdio-1.0
>     build-depends:     base >=4.7 && <4.8,
>                        unix ==2.7.*, -- Here because of after depending on
> it
>                        directory ==1.2.*, -- Here because of after
> depending on it
>                        filepath ==1.3.*, -- Here because of after
> depending on it
>                        test-framework,
>                        test-framework-hunit,
>                        HUnit
>     default-language:  Haskell2010
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