[Haskell-cafe] packages and QuickCheck

Conal Elliott conal at conal.net
Wed Sep 10 06:12:17 EDT 2008


If I do foo and foo-test, then I would probably place foo-test on Hackage.
Alternatively, just give foo a pointer to the location of the foo-test darcs
repo location.  But then it might not be easy for users to keep the versions
in sync.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch <
g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 9. September 2008 16:05 schrieb Conal Elliott:
> > […]
>
> > > > My current leaning is to split a package "foo" into packages "foo"
> > > > and "foo-test"
> > >
> > > What benefit does this provide?
> >
> > It keeps the library and its dependencies small.
>
> Do you publish foo-test on Hackage?  If yes than the HackageDB gets
> cluttered
> with test packages.  If not, there is no easy way for users to run your
> tests.
>
> > […]
>
> Best wishes,
> Wolfgang
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