[phobos] Unittest errors on windows with latest phobos sources

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

FWIW rdmd has a --main flag that adds a dummy main for just unittesting.

Andrei

Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
> 
>> Le 2010-07-06 à 11:28, Sean Kelly a écrit :
>>
>>> On Jul 5, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>>> That's probably my fault.
>>>> Every team needs one of those people. Thanks for filling that role.
>>> I like to maintain a steady level of failure to keep things positive ;-)
>>>
>>> How about this... the unittest handler only returns an error code and if it's nonzero then the app won't run.
>> This is what I was expecting the change would do originally. Running the program should be conditional to the unit tests being successful, otherwise it's too easy to ignore them.
>>
>> Another way to put it is: do you want your failed unit tests to behave as warnings or as errors? I choose errors.
> 
> Yeah, the only thing I've been wondering about is whether there's a case where the unittests would want to return 0 but have the app still not run.  I thought maybe with a custom build meant to run unit tests, but in that case I'd have an empty main() that simply returned 0 and would specify that main should run.  Still trying to decide whether there are any justifiable cases that the new behavior wouldn't cover.
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