[Haskell-cafe] hackage and cabal test support: why does it claim I have no type field when I do?

[Doug Burke]

Aha, I'd missed that; thanks - I'll try the fix after going pumpkin hunting with the kids!

Doug


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From: JP Moresmau <jpmoresmau at gmail.com>
To: Doug Burke <doug_j_burke at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org" <Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] hackage and cabal test support: why does it claim I have no type field when I do?

Maybe the issue is that the test modules are missing from the
distribution file, which is a known bug.
(http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/792)

JP

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Doug Burke <doug_j_burke at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I've just been updating my code to take advantage of the test support in
> Cabal. I have it so that
>   cabal configure --enable-tests
>   cabal build
>   cabal test
> works. However, when I try to upload to hackage, I get
>   cabal upload -c dist/swish-0.6.2.0.tar.gz
>   Checking dist/swish-0.6.2.0.tar.gz...
>   Error: dist/swish-0.6.2.0.tar.gz: 400 Error in upload
>   400 Error in upload
>   line 271: The 'type' field is required for test suites. The available test
>   types are: exitcode-stdio-1.0
> and here are the relevant lines from the cabal file:
>    267     if flag(developer)
>    268        ghc-options: -Werror
>    269        ghc-prof-options: -auto-all
>    270
>    271  Test-Suite test-builtinmap
>    272     type:       exitcode-stdio-1.0
>    273     Hs-Source-Dirs: tests/ src/
>    274     Main-Is:    BuiltInMapTest.hs
>    275     Other-Modules:  TestHelpers
>    276
> As you can see, there's a type field for the Test-Suite and I don't see any
> obvious discrepancy with the information from the user's guide
> (http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/#test-suites). I also have
>   Cabal-Version:      >= 1.9.2
>
> in the file; the full version can be found at
> https://bitbucket.org/doug_burke/swish/src/4545220d88e2/swish.cabal#cl-271
>
> What am I doing wrong?
> Thanks in advance,
> Doug
>
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JP Moresmau
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