> On Feb 16, 2022, at 11:41 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 5:36 PM Jean-Paul Calderone 
>> <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I think it would be lovely if trial caught up to the last decade of advances 
>> in coverage measurement technology.  I think this means integrating with 
>> coverage.py - probably the hands-down leader in Python coverage technology 
>> for at least the last 10 years, if not more - instead of the stdlib "trace" 
>> module which is ... something else.  Or maybe there's an even better option 
>> out there somewhere - it would be amazing if all of the trial-based test 
>> suites out there got whatever the best current option is - why should ever 
>> project have to figure this out for itself?
>> 
>> When was the last time anyone ran trial --coverage on purpose?  Did they 
>> realize they were choosing the bad option?
>> 
>> I know that you can hack around this situation roughly like this:
>> 
>> python -m coverage run -m twisted.trial ...
>> 
>> but this has some shortcomings.
>> If trial --coverage exists shouldn't it be the good option?
>> python -m coverage run -m twisted.trial -jN ... is a bad time.  How about 
>> some coverage measurement that's multi-core friendly?  It's a real drag 
>> going from a 30 second no-coverage test run using 16 cores to a 15 minute 
>> coverage-measuring run on a single core.
Presumably trial -jN uses us processes, so 
https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/6.3.1/subprocess.html is worth a read. 

>> Does anyone agree that this is something short of an ideal situation?  Is 
>> anyone interested in helping address it?
>> 
>> Jean-Paul
> 
> Anyone?
>  
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