[racket-dev] okay to require rackunit in modules required at startup?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 29 02:19:59 EDT 2011

Yes, please do separate the stepper tests out into another file.

Robby

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> An hour and a half ago, John Clements wrote:
>> In certain places, I know that we're trying to be careful to
>> minimize 'require's that occur as part of DrRacket startup.  Is
>> 'rackunit' something we're trying to avoid? Specifically, I have old
>> unit tests in collects/stepper/private/shared.rkt that I'd like to
>> revive as rackunit tests.
>
> Adding this is a bad idea -- but size is not the problem -- the
> redundant dependency is.
>
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