[racket-dev] Fishy directory rename

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 14 21:17:51 EDT 2013

I moved that because I thought it was a test. I thought it was a test
because of the directory name and because it has files that are not being
compiled.

(But I didn't check with Matthias specifically about that directory.)

Robby


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> Trying to sort out some apparent mess in the props, I ran into this
> possibly bad rename:
>
>     pkgs/htdp-pkgs/htdp-lib/2htdp/utest
>     -->
>     pkgs/htdp-pkgs/htdp-test/2htdp/utest
>
> Before the move, the "utest" directory was not considered a test by
> the old distribution rules (since it wasn't in a "tests" directory),
> and after the move it is in a *-test package and therefore probably
> considered as tests that wouldn't be packaged in the release.
>
> I *think* that it's wrong, because I vaguely remember Matthias saying
> that he wants "utest" in the distribution, but I'm not sure.
>
> [The more disturbing point is that dealing with two of these paths and
> comparing it with the old paths made this thing ridiculously difficult
> to notice.]
>
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