If a packages is only needed for testing (eg loaded by runtests.jl), but not for the package functionality per se, should I include it in REQUIRE?
There’s test/REQUIRE
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To be fair, I don’t think test/REQUIRE is in the documentation page here:
http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.5/manual/packages/
(unless I just didn’t see it). I only knew to do it because… I don’t really know. It may be good to mention it.
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Want to open a PR? I agree that this would be useful for many people.
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Sure, if no one posts a link to the PR I’ll open one when I get to it. There are a few other PRs I got to make first.
Started the PR:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/19593
Further discussion should continue there. Thanks @Tamas_Papp for mentioning this!
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@ChrisRackauckas: nice of you to submit a patch. I opened an issue to create an empty test/REQUIRE file in PkgDev.generate.
https://github.com/JuliaLang/PkgDev.jl/issues/90
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