Split the tests or interfaces out?

[achingbrain]

ipfs-bitswap has a runtime dependency on this module to pull in MulticodecTopology which means it ends up installing chai and sinon and whole bunch of other testing related modules.

This module depends on libp2p-tcp to run a test, and libp2p-tcp has a dev dependency on this module to pull in the tests.

This is a bit of a code smell, maybe either the tests or the interfaces should be in a separate module to break these weird dependency loops?

[vasco-santos]

Splitting makes sense to me! I would go with a new repo/module for the tests: js-libp2p-interfaces-tests

What is your opinion @jacobheun ?

[jacobheun]

We should definitely avoid the test modules getting installed when base interfaces are being installed. I'd like to consider the usage more before just separating the two. Unless there is a strong need to get this fixed, let's revisit this in a couple months.

[BigLep]

@vasco-santos : what are the next steps on this issue? If you're paused working on it, do you want to return to weekly candidates and denote what's next please?

[vasco-santos]

#97 has in the OP the remaining work. Basically handling the release of the multiple modules by updating the release scripts.