patch: --enable-tests and --only-dependencies
Johan Tibell
johan.tibell at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 17:58:14 CET 2012
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Andres Löh <andres at well-typed.com> wrote:
> So, let me ask whether it's really the right decision that tests and
> benchmarks are never installed? I agree that they're *mainly* useful
> for development, but aren't there cases where one might want to have
> tests and benchmarks be run on a client machines, as part of debugging
> a problem?
I don't think users want to run or install tests (or benchmarks) when they say
cabal install --enable-tests
What I think they want to say is
cabal configure-and-build-why-does-cabal-make-me-write-so-much-stuff-manually
--enable-tests --also-pull-in-deps
but we don't really have a way to say that.
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