haskell: Should we should run tests for hspec

[Fuuzetsu]

Currently hspec has doCheck = false presumably due to infinite recursion.

The culprit is stringbuilder test dependency which depends on hspec in its own test-suite.

For hspec therefore, it might be worthwhile enabling tests and simply setting dontCheck on the stringbuilder used for hspec.

In my dev default.nix for hspec, I just have

  testDepends = [
    base directory hspec-core hspec-meta (hlib.dontCheck stringbuilder)
  ];

It does mean that we end up building stringbuilder twice (once normally and once for hspec) but it's a small package.

What do you think @peti ?

[peti]

I've made the necessary changes in the haskell-updates branch. Thank you very much for the suggestion! The only risk I see with this kind of trickery is that we don't want stringbuilder ever to become a real dependency of the library, because then it will be propagated to users of the package and we might end up in a situation where builds have two seemingly identical versions of stringbuilder in path without a way to distinguish them.

[Fuuzetsu]

Awesome, closing.