Smarter compilation for test-only

[Robin Green]

If you have a situation where you are refactoring your code, and 99 out of 100 test source files currently don't compile, but you'd like to run the 1 that does, using sbt 0.11.3 you have to go through and comment out all the failing tests, because test-only still tries to compile them, even though they're not required to run the one test you want to run.

This is an exaggerated example - it wasn't 99 files that were failing to compile! But smarter compilation for this case would be nice.

[Mark Harrah]

You could perhaps get away with less work by filtering `sources`, but yes, something to make this easy or some other infrastructure to restrict compilation could be nice. I'm happy to point anyone in the right direction who wants to work on this. (Filing an enhancement seems appropriate in any case.)

-Mark

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[nafg]

+1