[racket-dev] dependencies for `racket-test` package

I believe the reason we disabled compilation was that tests weren't
constrained to depend only on the core.  Some tests may use planet
packages, etc.  Originally, this was mostly for rackunit, which was a
planet package.  This suggests to me that we should (a) remove the test
packages from the default distribution, and (b) re-enable compilation for
them.  That way the dependencies will be computed properly.  It also
suggests that if they aren't already included, perhaps we should add planet
packages to the list of things we consider among dependencies?

Carl Eastlund


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that "racket-test" needs to be split up. (For the
> initial cut, I just put the whole "tests" collection there.)
>
> I'm not sure about compiling tests for the purposes of dependency
> checking. It sounds ok, but I have a feeling that I'm forgetting some
> reason that we disabled compilation for tests.
>
> At Tue, 2 Jul 2013 12:20:57 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> > Currently, the `racket-test` package has very few declared
> > dependencies, but this is wrong. The checking in 'raco setup' doesn't
> > catch this because the files aren't compiled, but at a minimum it
> > depends on `unstable/debug` (currently a hidden part of
> > `typed-racket-lib`) and some portions of htdp that aren't declared.
> >
> > This brings up (at least) 3 questions
> >
> > - What is it ok for `racket-test` to depend on?  I'd like this set to
> > be small, so we can test the core without needing to build everything.
> > - Should we compile the contents of `racket-test` so that we get
> > dependency checking?
> > - Should parts of `racket-test` be split up?
> >
> > I'd like to figure this out, but I don't have answers yet.
> >
> > Sam
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