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allow `-out` with `odin test` for easier test debugging
Summary
When debugging tests I have to point the debugger at
{root}/source/.exe (the default test executable location)
instead of a more sane custom path like
{root}/test.exe
Allowing -out with odin test would make this possible, but I'm not sure if it's in the spirit of odin test, seeing that it was disallowed in the original commit (https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/commit/2bd0fd932a4eb1c2e6bc8702450c230186bb3c44). The fix is to remove &~ Command_test from here:
https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/blob/81e3b64ecda857458b8e0762bdf6156cdaa1cb74/src/main.cpp#L750
Side note, one awkward thing about debugging tests is they get run twice: first when calling odin test, which builds and runs the test executable, and again when debugging. To get around this there would need to be a odin test-build and odin test-run similar to odin build and odin run. Right now it's not a big deal and there's benefits to having a cleaner CLI with just odin test. Anyway, that's a separate matter.
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Odin: dev-2022-09:0bc660c7
OS: Windows 11 Professional (version: 21H2), build 22000.856
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
RAM: 32605 MiB
I'd prefer odin test <package> -build-only to splitting it up into two verbs, odin test-build & odin test-run. Too much noise for a rare use case.
And while we're at it, we could add a odin test <package> -keep-test-executable to keep the executable after running the test, with it being deleted by default.