dub: standard project: how to build the unittest (the thing `dub test` runs)

[Andre Pany]

On Saturday, 12 December 2020 at 12:47:59 UTC, Tobias Pankrath 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 December 2020 at 12:18:47 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>>
>> In any case you should have configurations in your dub json.
>
> Thank you for your detailed reply and I am sure I can make it 
> work in the way you described.
>
> But I don't think my use case is invalid and dub should improve 
> its usability here.
>
> Either it is indeed necessary to provide configuration even for 
> very simple projects. Than dub should generate them on `dub 
> init`. Or dub allows one to just build the test without running 
> them. I'd propose `dub build test` or `dub build --test` for it.
>
> What do you think?

As far as I remember someone else also requested the feature: 
building a test build without executing it.
About the actual command I am not sure, maybe also `dub test 
--build` could be an option.

Actually I add the configurations section to all dub projects, 
therefore I would like if dub init already add it by default. But 
I do not know whether this would be for other (new) users too 
confusing.

Kind regards
Andre