[racket-dev] What command should DrDr run by default?

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sat Jul 6 23:43:10 EDT 2013

It doesn't make much sense to use a test submodule in files that are
intended to be (only) tests.


Earlier today, Robby Findler wrote:
> That's the plan. Thanks for fixing them.
> 
> Robby
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 
>     I recently discovered that DrDr runs `raco test` by default on files,
>     and has since February. However, the DrDr documentation says that it
>     runs `racket -t`.  I discovered this because the change caused many of
>     the `net` tests to no longer actually run; see
> 
>         http://drdr.racket-lang.org/27042/pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-test/tests/
>     net/url.rkt
> 
>     which appears to be successful, even though running `racket` on that
>     file would have shown the error that I fixed in
>     https://github.com/plt/racket/commit/a4e529a816 . These tests are a
>     particularly bad case because they run all their tests in the `main`
>     submodule, and thus are *not* executed by `raco test`. If the plan is
>     for everything to run with `raco test`, I'll fix these tests.  But
>     what is the plan?

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