[racket-dev] Submodules & dependencies

I agree with your point #1 heartily.

I don't follow point #2. Do you mean that currently by having two
files the tests can depend on things that the code does not (for
purposes of distribution, etc) and having those tests embedded in the
files increases the cross-collection dependencies as well as
increasing compilation time? I suppose that is true, but I don't know
how severe it is and I value having the tests.

Jay

On 3/11/12, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> Two days ago, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>> [...]
>> I've expanded 'raco test' to support running a different submodule
>> or running the default module (what's a good name for it?) if the
>> submodule isn't there.
>>
>> I intend to change DrDr so that it always uses "raco test -r" rather
>> than "racket -t".
>
> Two comments on this:
>
> 1. I still would like to see a way to properly run some submodule
>    other than `main' that is not tied to a "raco test".  But probably
>    a better place for this is a new command-line flag for the main
>    `racket' executable, where the default for the flag would be
>    `main'.  (This should probably use the same terminology as `slice',
>    or anything else if it changes.)  Then, `raco test' could be
>    explained as doing two things: changing the default to `test'[*],
>    and running it recursively over a bunch of files (which is
>    definitely suitable for testing but not for other modes).
>
>    ([*]I still prefer `tests' but...)
>
> 2. It sounds dangerous to encourage using this by making drdr do it.
>    The thing is that while the tests don't have a loading overhead,
>    they will still add dependencies to the files.
>
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