dmd -unittest=<pattern> (same syntax as -i)

[Seb]

On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 21:22:01 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
> would a PR for `dmd -unittest=<pattern> (same syntax as -i)` be 
> welcome?
> wouldn't that avoid all the complicatiosn with 
> version(StdUnittest) ?
> eg use case:
>
> # compile with unittests just for package foo (excluding 
> subpackage foo.bar) dmd -unittest=foo -unittest=-foo.bar -i 
> main.d

Hmm how would this solve the StdUnittest use case? I.e. that 
templated phobos unittests and private unittest symbols are 
compiled into the users unittests?

See also:

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6202
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6159