Is it possible to use this tool with Pkg.test() rather than julia runtests.jl?

[tomasaschan]

In an attempt to configure the soon-to-be released Contour package to be correctly handled by Pkg, I've added a couple of REQUIRE files to the repo: JuliaGeometry/Contour.jl#6

However, since installation of testing dependencies rely on using Pkg.test("Contour") to run the test suite, I can't just do julia --code-coverage test/runtests.jl as before to run the tests - on the other hand, julia --code-coverage -e 'Pkg.test("Contour") doesn't seem to generate any coverage files in the folder where I execute it (at least not on my local machine).

Is there a way to somehow tell Pkg.test() that I want coverage analysis - or, if not, then maybe to tell it that "I'm about to run the tests manually, could you please resolve testing dependencies"?

Ping @StefanKarpinski

[IainNZ]

Interesting... the core of the issue is that this code
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/pkg/entry.jl#L669-L694
basically runs Julia as a subprocess - essentially doing julia test/runtests.jl itself. I think the cleanest solution is to add an optional argument. I'll submit a PR to do so.

[IainNZ]

JuliaLang/julia#7393

[IainNZ]

JuliaLang/julia#6191 by @burrowsa added this feature

[IainNZ]

Closed by JuliaLang/julia#7615