Test Cases for Configurations

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:16:10AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >
> >    modules: ...
> >    modules[testing]: ...
> >    modules[internal]: ...
> 
> A simpler way to solve this problem is to have two packages, with the first 
> package (foo-internal) exporting all the modules, and the second (foo) 
> re-exposing just the non-internal modules.  We don't currently have support 
> for re-exposing, but it has lots of uses and it shouldn't be too hard to 
> add (to GHC, at least).
> 
> Perhaps it's not quite as nice, though: the foo-internal package shows up 
> in your ghc-pkg list, and you need two separate Cabal packages (although 
> good support for working with multiple packages is something we should have 
> too).

It also means that none of your internal modules can depend on any of
your normal modules.

(I'm not really convinced it's simpler either)


Thanks
Ian