[Haskell-cafe] how to write cabal package file for executable with unit tests?

[Carter Schonwald]

Indeed. Best practices are trending towards making internal Apis public.
But very very clearly making it clear "assume these get breaking changes
every single release.  "

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014, Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote:

> On 18/02/14 12:57, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > And I'm not sure that I get many of the benefits of thinking about API
> > boundaries, because I have to expose modules from the library if I want
> to
> > write unit tests for them, even if they're not really part of the
> library's
> > public interface.
>
> Exactly that has bothered me for long.
>
> If I want to make a proper cabal package with tests for internal API, I
> have to expose the internal API (otherwise we get double building).
>
> In general, I always recommend exposing all the code in .Internal
> modules - I often run into problems with packages that don't do this.
>
> Yet, the whole re-exporting overhead introduced by this is cumbersome,
> and it doesn't make haddocks nicer either (e.g. when you come to a page
> that is full of re-exports). I hope haddock will find a way to make this
> nicer.
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