modules and tests

[Jochen Theodorou]

On 24.11.2016 16:41, Alan Bateman wrote:
[...]
>> to Alan and Sander:
>> setting command line arguments or using a build tool to fiddle them
>> for you is exactly what we do not want here! We want fidelity between
>> the compile time configuration and the runtime configuration. Having
>> to play with -Xpatch at runtime is conceptually exactly like setting
>> the classpath. I don't want to explain to the Java devs that we have
>> fidelity between compile-time and runtime on source code but not on
>> test code.
>>
> I hope in time that there will be support from the tools, plugins, test
> runners ... so that regular developers don't need to be concerned with
> this.

I don't understand why it is better if a tool does -Xpatch, than when I 
do it myself. Anything else will require several classes be loaded that 
will change how the modules work and influence the tests with their 
present and their dependencies

bye Jochen