Pkg3 and testing

General Usage
1

I have checked out a registered package for development:

(v0.7) pkg>develop CompScienceMeshes

I have created a new branch and made some modifications in .julia/dev/ComScienceMeshes. Next, I tried to run the unit tests:

(v0.7) pkg>test CompScienceMeshes

This results in error message suggesting my fixes are not taken into account. Inspection of the error output indicates that the code loaded by test is the registered version in packages/slug/CompScienceMeshes as opposed to the working branch in the tracked development directory dev/CompScienceMeshes. Am I doing something wrong?

2

Perhaps you had already loaded the module in the Julia session before making the changes or before you did develop CompScienceMeshes?

3

This is possible but I was working under the assumption that test spins up a new Julia engine as was the case for Pkg.test in v0.6.

I played around some more and I got the issue resolved by:

  1. committing my changes to git
  2. updating: pkg> up CompScienceMeshes (this creates a corresponding packages/new_slug/CompScienceMeshes)
  3. testing: pkg> test CompScienceMeshes (this loads from packages/new_slug/CompScienceMeshes)

From what you are saying it sounds I should restart Julia to test my modifications. Could Revise.jl make this easier?

4

Yea, that is still the case, nevermind me then :slight_smile:

5

What does pkg> st say? Also can you try Base.find_package("CompScienceMeshes")?

6

Status output seems to imply the package location resolves to the development directory:

(v0.7) pkg> st
    Status `C:\Users\krcools\.julia\environments\v0.7\Project.toml`
  [3e66a162] CompScienceMeshes v0.1.2+ # (C:\Users\krcools\.julia\dev\CompScienceMeshes)

Running Base.find_package returns the location used by pkg> test CompScienceMeshes:

julia> Base.find_package("CompScienceMeshes")
"C:\\Users\\krcools\\.julia\\packages\\CompScienceMeshes\\IXhQ\\src\\CompScienceMeshes.jl"
7

It looks like you have added and not developed the package. This means it will only be updated when you do an explicit update with new commits. Try rm the package and then use dev to add it.

8

I indeed first ran add and then dev. Is this not a very common scenario? First you decide to check out a package, then you find out is has a bug or a missing feature, and then you run dev on the same package. Does Pkg3 not allow this chain of events?

9

Yes, but it looked like the dev didn’t “take”.

10

Yes, i think this is also related to the bugs experienced in the other threads. When a github tagged version of a package is installed and then the dev command is run, then the environmnets/v0.7/Manifest.toml is not properly updated to point towards the dev path instead of the repo on github. One can manually fix this.