Re: (not) testing Rust packages?!

[Martin Becze]

On 1/25/20 11:46 AM, John Soo wrote:
> Hi Hartmut and Martin,
>
> I think it makes sense to run tests now.
>
> > Part of the reason is that bringing tests for a given library can bring in a 
> > massive amount of dependencies.
>
> I think that we are getting close to having complete dependencies for most rust 
> packages we have and most are declared in the package definition.

Yeah really good point there (and good work on getting all those pkgs in!)

> Furthermore since most rust libraries we have are not executables, we could 
> still skip the build and run the tests I think. Aren’t the two phases 
> completely separate for cargo?

Yes, will can skip the build and just test in the (cargo-build-system) 
but `cargo test` will cause most everything to build anyways i believe.


> I like the idea of having tests, too.  Plus I’d like to see the cargo build 
> system come closer to the standard package definition.


agreed!