Project.toml in test directory vs extras

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I’m working on a package now which has a separate Poject.toml in the test directory. But DataFrames and others have all their test dependencies listed in extra in the main Project.toml. Is there anything I can read for when to use one approach vs the other?

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If you want to support julia versions older than 1.2 then you need the extras approach. The test environment is the new way of doing things

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Ah interesting. Do you have a source for that?

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The two pieces of info that I know of:

https://pkgdocs.julialang.org/v1/creating-packages/#Test-specific-dependencies-in-Julia-1.2-and-above

This says the interface with test/Project.toml is still experimental.

Then there is an older discussion

The issue mentioned here (#1223) is still open, so the comment of the interface being considered beta probably still applies.

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https://pkgdocs.julialang.org/dev/creating-packages/#Test-specific-dependencies-in-Julia-1.2-and-above

Note that there are two documentstions for the package manager: one is a concise one within the general julia documentation, and an other one, at the given link, more exhaustive…