easytest is not actively maintained and requires an old version of
hedgehog which does not support base-compat 0.11 & ghc 8.8.
This is still using the old easytest helpers, and not displaying test
names properly.
in JournalReader.hs. If you still need this, feel free to work on
those errors. But hopefully not, because dropping base 4.8 should
permit some code cleanups.
by default. hledger-lib's doctests and easytests test suites (each ?)
require an additional slow rebuild of hledger-lib and are not worth
the time, energy and carbon. hledger's test suite runs those same
easytest tests (but not the doctests).
fail is moving out of Monad and into it's own MonadFail class.
This will be enforced in GHC 8.8 (I think).
base-compat/base-compat-batteries 0.11.0 have adapted to this,
and are approaching stackage nightly
(https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stackage/issues/4802).
hledger is now ready to build with base-compat-batteries 0.11.0, once
all of our deps do (eg aeson). We are still compatible with the older
0.10.x and GHC 7.10.3 as well.
For now we are using both fails:
- new fail (from Control.Monad.Fail), used in our parsers, imported
via base-compat-batteries Control.Monad.Fail.Compat to work with
older GHC versions.
- old fail (from GHC.Base, exported by Prelude, Control.Monad,
Control.Monad.State.Strict, Prelude.Compat, ...), used in easytest's
Test, since I couldn't find their existing fail implementation to update.
To reduce (my) confusion, these are imported carefully, consistently,
and qualified everywhere as Fail.fail and Prelude.fail, with clashing
re-exports suppressed, like so:
import Prelude hiding (fail)
import qualified Prelude (fail)
import Control.Monad.State.Strict hiding (fail)
import "base-compat-batteries" Prelude.Compat hiding (fail)
import qualified "base-compat-batteries" Control.Monad.Fail.Compat as Fail
This constraints the easytest dependency to <0.3, because hledger and
hledger-lib currently don't build with 0.3.
Of course the better solution would be to fix the build errors, but easytest-0.3
is not even in stackage nightly yet and I just need it to build right now :-)
