Trying to use relative files

[gaborbernat]

I'm trying to set relative file paths, but failing 😄

https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/7.0.1/cmd.html#re-mapping-paths Am I right to assume this removes the need for paths.source?

When I look at here https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/7.0.1/config.html#paths, I do not see paths.other explained (as you set it here - https://github.com/platformdirs/platformdirs/blob/main/pyproject.toml#L59, so it's not clear why that fixed platformdirs).

I ran into this while trying to fix pypa/virtualenv#2477

PS. this is not really a bug, but I couldn't open a discussion or q/a here, perhaps it would be nice to enable that feature for the repo 🤔

I've tried without the relative coverage, but I'm failing to get virtualenv CI pass with 7.0 https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/actions/runs/3805116230/jobs/6472857177, even after moving from * to **.

[nedbat]

I didn't see relative_files in your repo, but when I added it and tried to get it to work, i saw coverage.py needed another fix.

[nedbat]

This is fixed in d08e6d0.

[nedbat]

This is now released as part of coverage 7.0.2.

[gaborbernat]

@nedbat part of this was that seems paths.other is not documented 😊 should we address that?

[nedbat]

The [paths] setting can be confusing. The name (source, other) is irrelevant and doesn't matter. What matters is that each setting is a list. Maybe the docs aren't clear about how the setting is used? https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/7.0.2/config.html#paths

[gaborbernat]

Ah I see 😊

[gaborbernat]

The [paths] setting can be confusing. The name (source, other) is irrelevant and doesn't matter. What matters is that each setting is a list. Maybe the docs aren't clear about how the setting is used? coverage.readthedocs.io/en/7.0.2/config.html#paths

I find it would be easier to understand this config by moving the first value to the key, something like:

paths.src = ["**/site-packages"]

instead of the current

paths.source = ["src", "**/site-packages"]

Granted, this would be a breaking change, but perhaps something we can pivot to in the long term.