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

On Jul 2, 2013 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.)

Sorry, I should have been more specific; 'tests/racket/stx.rktl' depends on
htdp.  I expect that the tests in that directory depend on other packages
as well, such as sandbox and compiler.

> 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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