New test-suite functionality

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 07:18:47 EST 2010


On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yep, that was it. Is there a reason the 'test' command doesn't work by
> default? It seems odd that typing 'cabal test' isn't enough of an
> indication of what I wanted to do. There are probably backwards
> compatibility concerns I don't know about, though.

Since the tests are built during the "build" phase rather than during
the "test" phase we decided to not build the tests by default to cut
down on build times in the default case.

Johan



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