Why is CI not running dmd's unittests?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2018-09-22 15:29, wolframw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ran the dmd unittests on my Windows machine today and one of the tests 
> in filename.d asserted. The cause for this has already been noticed a 
> few days ago by someone else [1] but not by CI.
> 
> Is it well-known that the dmd unittests (at least for the Windows build) 
> are not automatically run? If so, what is the reasoning behind it?
> 
> 
> [1] 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/7baa0e82802839940fb0620bad02e97f741d2c27#r30571264 

I'm guessing because originally there weren't that many unit test blocks 
in the DMD source (or any at all). The main test suite is in the 
separate directory "tests".

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg