patch: --enable-tests and --only-dependencies

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 17:10:16 CET 2012


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Thomas Tuegel <ttuegel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on the patch for Cabal that we need in order to run tests
> automatically. Hopefully, I'll send it to the list this afternoon.
> Then, after the cabal-install release, we can turn automatic tests
> back on.

I don't think we want to run the tests of all dependent packages e.g. if I do

    cabal install --enable-tests --only-dependencies

if that's what you're trying to do. Or at least we need a way to say
install all dependencies of this package, including its test
dependencies.

-- Johan



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