What does “running GHCs testsuite” mean in this case?
Running a testsuite using the GHC executable I’m using to check the executable is working correctly?
Or do you mean running a testsuite that would otherwise be run by GHC’s CI to help GHC development?
I have not read the matrix channel discussion, so I have zero context.
I don’t really want to put forward my own goals and ideas, but hear those of the community. At one point I might write a HF tech proposal or something similar about it.
I am mostly making use of nix built ghc binaries for production, and I would want them to be tested at least when they got built. If I am using a tested binary across many systems, then testing on each system is not important. (usually all are nixos systems)
And I think that ghc’s testsuite is not being run by nix build process. But the nix based dev environment does run the tests of all the dependencies/libraries. So this has been the source of confidence in the ghc binary, but running ghc’s testsuite would be nicer.