Library tests

Goals

1. Help library developers ensure that their changes work.
2. Enable something like BuildBot to ensure that libraries keep working across all the Implementations.
3. Enable test-driven development if a developer wants to use it.
4. Provide a series of testcases for implementation developers.

Status

According to Ian Lynagh, SimonM has been moving tests a directory at a time from the testsuite package that comes with ghc to libraries/foo/tests. It looks like he's gotten to unix and network. The tests "assume the package is part of a GHC build tree with the testsuite installed in ../../../testsuite."

Neil Mitchell has a program at http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/filepath/GenTests.hs to automatically extract tests from Haddock comments like the ones in http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/filepath/System/FilePath/Version_0_11.hs.

Design

TBD