[Hackage] #787: --test-option should support template argument

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#787: --test-option should support template argument
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  Reporter:  tibbe                |        Owner:      
      Type:  enhancement          |       Status:  new 
  Priority:  normal               |    Milestone:      
 Component:  cabal-install tool   |      Version:  HEAD
  Severity:  normal               |     Keywords:      
Difficulty:  very easy (<1 hour)  |   Ghcversion:      
  Platform:                       |  
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 The test-framework package can optionally output JUnit XML, an XML flavor
 understood by many continuous build systems, if you pass it the `--jxml`
 flag. Using that flag, one can get `cabal test` to output JUnit XML:

 {{{
 cabal configure --enable-tests
 cabal build
 cabal test --test-option=--jxml=dist/test/junit.xml
 }}}

 However, the `--test-option` flag doesn't allow the user to pass different
 flags to different test executables so each test executable will override
 the output of the previous.

 If the `--test-option` flag took a name template argument, supporting a
 `$test-suite` placeholder, you could generate one JUnit XML file per test
 suite:

 {{{
 cabal configure --enable-tests
 cabal build
 cabal test --test-option=--jxml=dist/test/$test-suite.xml
 }}}

 The detailed test interface might support this in some nicer way, but this
 is a cheap way to have Cabal cooperate better with other test runners.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/787>
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