Re: [Caml-list] Preferred layout for new packages

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Le 14 nov. 2012 à 18:00, Marek Kubica a écrit :

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:42:09 -0500
> Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> (…)
> 
> I actually like test extraction frameworks, tools like nose and py.test
> have made writing tests with Python much nicer, that's why I'm somehow
> unimpressed how verbose OUnit is. But having the test code in a comment
> seems ugly to me. Maybe there could be some CamlP4 hack to exclude it
> on normal compilation?

Being not found of extraction myself, I made another proposal in the
latest revision of Kaputt: instead of using mli/ml file couples, I tend to
now use mli/ml/mlt file triples. In this setting, the mlt file simply contains
the code related to tests. Then, at compilation a small camlp4 preprocessor
concatenates the contents of ml and mlt files before actual compilation.

My understanding is that it reconciles two antagonistic goals:
  - separate application code from test code;
  - allow test code to access unexported elements.

I would be glad to hear what people think of this scheme, independently
of the Kaputt library itself (which I am not advertising here). One can read
more in section 3.3 of the manual available at:
    http://kaputt.x9c.fr/downloads.html


Regards,

Xavier Clerc