add wrapper for shelltest

development.md

@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 
 ## Test suite
 
+install the shelltest package: cabal install shelltests
+
 Run this from the project root directory. It will make sure each site type builds. It first does an sdist, which ensures we are testing what will be put on hackage.
 
-  shelltest tests/scaffold.shelltest
+  tests/run.sh
 
 Give it the --debug flag to see all output
 

tests/run.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash -x
+#
+# A wrapper for the shelltest test. Passes along options to shelltest.
+#
+#   cabal install shelltestrunner
+
+cabal clean && cabal install && cabal sdist
+
+# I am not that good at shell scripting
+# this for loop only operates on 1 file (as per tail -1)
+for f in $(ls -1rt dist/*.tar.gz | tail -1)
+do
+  tar -xzvf $f && cd `basename $f .tar.gz`
+  shelltest ../tests/scaffold.shelltest $@
+  cd ..
+  rm -r `basename $f .tar.gz`
+done

tests/runscaffold.sh

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/bash -x
 
-  rm -rf foobar && runghc scaffold.hs init && cd foobar && cabal install && cabal install -fdevel && cd ..
+rm -rf foobar && runghc scaffold.hs init && cd foobar && cabal install && cabal install -fdevel && cd ..

tests/scaffold.shelltest

@@ -1,13 +1,4 @@
-# This uses shelltest
-#
-#   cabal install shelltestrunner
-#   shelltest tests/scaffold.shelltest
-#
-# note that the first 2 lines setup this test but will also be counted as 2 tests.
-
-cabal clean && cabal install && cabal sdist
-
-for f in $(ls -1rt dist/*.tar.gz | tail -1); do tar -xzvf $f && cd `basename $f .tar.gz`; done
+# Important! run with tests/run.sh
 
 rm -rf foobar && runghc scaffold.hs init && cd foobar && cabal install && cabal install -fdevel && cd ..
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