[racket-dev] backwards incompatibility (was Re: `define-serializable-struct` and the `deserialize-info...` export)

At Fri, 8 Nov 2013 19:18:10 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Yes. Even if (as in the future) the current ring-0 packages weren't all
> > the same git repository, I'd certainly at least try building them with
> > this change.
> >
> > I think that running all the tests in the same way that DrDr does is
> > not yet easy, but I hope we're moving in the direction of making that
> > easier, and then my process can improve.
> >
> >
> Well, if you've built them, then can't just you just run "raco test -xp
> <put package names here>" and come back in a bit?

I encounter two problems with that strategy:

 * figuring out which of the 200+ package names to write; and

 * many things fail immediately and most things are skipped, because
   `raco test` doesn't use the test customizations in "props" the way
   DrDr does.

I would like to say `raco test -p main-distribution` to get essentially
DrDr's results on my machine.

> > For now: I build, run some tests, and then push --- hoping that I can
> > fix or revert quickly when DrDr uncovers problems.
> >
> >
> Perhaps we should be thinking about generalizing the ring-0-based DrDr so
> we can ask to try out changes?

Yes, it would be great if you work on that. I think the way forward is
to split out "props" information into "info.rkt" files, but I haven't
had time to pursue that direction myself.