Project dependencies setup (TestJive.jl example does not work)

[tisztamo]

Trying to execute runtests.jl as a script, but it is not clear how I can set up the project environment so that Jive and my test dependencies wil be available.

The examples show how this should be done, but they are not working with Julia 1.6:

% git clone https://github.com/wookay/TestJive.jl
Cloning into 'TestJive.jl'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 23, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 23 (delta 0), reused 5 (delta 0), pack-reused 17
Unpacking objects: 100% (23/23), done.
% cd TestJive.jl/test
% julia runtests.jl test1
ERROR: LoadError: ArgumentError: Package Jive not found in current path:
- Run `import Pkg; Pkg.add("Jive")` to install the Jive package.

julia --project=. test/runtests.jl throws the same.

What is the way to go?

[wookay]

you could add Jive pkg.

julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add("Jive")'

or you can activate . that project.

$ julia --project=.
julia>

press ] key

(TestJive) pkg>

(TestJive) pkg> activate .
  Activating environment at `~/work/TestJive.jl/Project.toml`

(TestJive) pkg> test

http://pkgdocs.julialang.org/v1/environments/#Using-someone-else's-project

[tisztamo]

Thank you for replying!

Maybe my original report was not detailed enough: I am using the pkg> test method for more than a year. My goal was here to run tests selectively, as described in the docs, and the examples in the docs start testing by running runtests.jl as a script, e.g.:

~/.julia/dev/Jive/test $ julia runtests.jl jive/If

(Note that in this example there is no --project, but I definitely need it)

It is clear that adding Jive as a normal dependency to the package helps, but I want to avoid that, because that will lead to installing Jive (update: and other test helpers I am using) in every project using my package, making my package a heavier dependency.

Jive is currently added as an "extra" dependency to the Project.toml, but a separate Project.toml in the test dir is also a possibility. What I do not see: how directly starting runtests.jl will work in this case, or if there is a way to run only specific tests while executing pkg> test.

Thanks in advance!

[wookay]

I just made test/Project.toml for TestJive.jl

• https://github.com/wookay/TestJive.jl/blob/master/test/Project.toml
• https://github.com/wookay/TestJive.jl/blob/master/Project.toml

on github actions:

      julia --project=. -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test()'

https://github.com/wookay/TestJive.jl/blob/d95cc61f955aa4a66231ed77f9deeed9102cda78/.github/workflows/actions.yml#L23

[tisztamo]

Thanks, this way of calling seems to open the way to filter tests by using the test_args argument.

However,

julia --project=. -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test(; test_args=["test1"])'

still runs both tests, not clear why. (This way of calling sets the ARGS, I am using it in another package without a test helper: https://github.com/tisztamo/Plugins.jl/blob/2ad710f707237426dbfc1d61c6e13ab625c1d05d/test/runtests.jl#L6 )

[wookay]

oh. I just bump up the Jive version.
[ba5e3d4b] Jive v0.2.18

please to update the Pkg registry.

julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.update()'

[tisztamo]

Thank you very much, it is working now!