A while a go there was some discussion and a pull request
<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6191> to handle test-specific
dependencies of packages, so that packages can say that “to run, I need
this and that package, but if you want to run the tests I also need those
two”. From reading the pull request discussion, it seems that the consensus
was to add a file test/REQUIRE with extra requirements for testing, but
this is undocumented in the manual
<http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/packages/#requirements>, so I
have two questions:
-
Is this functionality “ready to use”, and the de facto recommended way
to specify test dependencies for packages?
-
Is there more to it than just adding a test/REQUIRE file, that I should
add to the documentation if I take a stab at adding this to the manual?
// T
