[Haskell-cafe] Changes to cabal-install

[Sean Leather]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 14 March 2014 17:03, Amy de Buitléir wrote:
> >
> > Question 1
> > ----------
> > Until recently, the command
> >
> >     cabal install --enable-tests
> >
> > used to build and run the tests. Now it seems I need to do
> >
> >     cabal test
> >
> > which then compiles the tests and runs them. So is the --enable-tests
> flag
> > doing anything, or is it now obsolete?
>
> Using 'cabal test' is preferable. You don't want to reinstall the
> package each time you run the test suite.
>

This sounds related:

   https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1647

Regards,
Sean
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