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author | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2023-08-25 10:20:28 -0400 |
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committer | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2023-12-01 13:05:03 -0500 |
commit | f7f37035c81fa825a4dfc2df1ad2589013ac6380 (patch) | |
tree | bfcfef3efeb73cb0c3c6d812280191d03bda1233 /.github | |
parent | 30dcc19d1f30fc203be460134c4578509cce704f (diff) |
Move tests to separate directories, and document
Today, with the tests inside a `tests` intermingled with the
corresponding library's source code, we have a few problems:
- We have to be careful that wildcards don't end up with tests being
built as part of Nix proper, or test headers being installed as part
of Nix proper.
- Tests in libraries but not executables is not right:
- It means each executable runs the previous unit tests again, because
it needs the libraries.
- It doesn't work right on Windows, which doesn't want you to load a
DLL just for the side global variable . It could be made to work
with the dlopen equivalent, but that's gross!
This reorg solves these problems.
There is a remaining problem which is that sibbling headers (like
`hash.hh` the test header vs `hash.hh` the main `libnixutil` header) end
up shadowing each other. This PR doesn't solve that. That is left as
future work for a future PR.
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
(cherry picked from commit 91b6833686a6a6d9eac7f3f66393ec89ef1d3b57)
(cherry picked from commit a61e42adb528b3d40ce43e07c79368d779a8b624)
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