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691	Make the testsuite standalone	simonmar		"The testsuite uses very little from the fptools framework, and could quite easily be made standalone.  This would have a few benefits:

 * People could download it from darcs without having a GHC source tree, add tests
   and submit them using 'darcs send', or attach the darcs patch to a bug report.

 * It would be a step in the right direction towards making the test suite more
   compiler-independent

 * We could ask people to grab a testsuite and do 'make fast', as a quick
   verification of their GHC installation.

 * Might this be a good framework for building a set of Haskell' conformance
   tests?

When this is done, we should also have a wiki page for the testsuite describing how to get it and use it.

A nice little project for someone?"	task	closed	normal	Not GHC	Test Suite	6.4.1	fixed			Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple	None/Unknown	Moderate (less than a day)	N/A