[racket-dev] should package "X" imply package "X-test"?

Another scenario is tests that are expensive and/or require a third party
account, so that a user is very unlikely to run them. Libs that are
wrappers for web services are examples I have, like AWS or echonest or
Google api discovery. Can't test interacting with the service without an
account configured, and the tests may have nontrivial I/O or even $ costs.

Having said that I'm not sure in my cases the cost to download/install the
tests is such a big deal, as opposed to the cost or manual setup to run
them.
On Oct 16, 2013 10:09 PM, "Sam Tobin-Hochstadt" <samth at cs.indiana.edu>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> > it would be nice to have a positive rationale for why we suggest leaving
> > this particular piece out of "X".
>
> Here's my positive rationale:
>
> First, why include "X-doc"?  I expect that if I tell someone they
> should try out Typed Racket, or Slideshow, or Frog, or some other bit
> of Racket software, I'll suggest that they do 'raco pkg install X',
> for whichever X we're talking about.  This means that 'X' should
> contain all the stuff they'd want to use. In particular, I assume that
> almost everyone who's intentionally installing 'X' will want X's
> documentation.  However, I don't think that everyone will want the
> tests -- if they do want the tests, it will be in a situation like you
> described, where asking someone to 'raco pkg install X-test' is easy.
>
> But why not just install X-test anyway, in case they need it?  I think
> this goes back to why we're not shipping absolutely everything at
> once.  There's a cost to a bigger download, whether that's someone
> deciding not to download a big file because the file size scares them
> off (a real phenomenon), or a network error that wouldn't have
> happened with a smaller download, or even actual monetary cost for
> someone on a metered network.
>
> Sam
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