Phobos: test suite

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 17/07/2015 9:19 a.m., Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 18:34:35 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> My concern is about getting access to the images to test against.
>> While embedding is valid, the test images I linked to only total a
>> couple meg at most. We will need others added. Both large and small. I
>> am concerned about file sizes and maintainability.
>> Especially for e.g. other file formats.
>>
>> Worse case scenario I'll make sure something like bin2d[0] is part of
>> the tools repo. To generate these files.
>> I just don't like this approach.
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/rikkimax/Bin2D/blob/master/source/Bin2D.d
>
> Can't you do the old string import trick to import binary files? I dont
> know if phobos unittests are built with string imports enabled though.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3420 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6554 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14349

That's why I'm not keen on it.