[TIP] [coverage] Why is --source=. not the default?

[Ned Batchelder]

Christian,

You make a good point.  It might be that the time has come to change the 
default to "--source=."   But I also know that these kinds of changes 
lead to unintended consequences, and people being surprised by changed 
defaults, so I am hesitant :)

--Ned.

On 1/14/23 3:32 PM, c.buhtz at posteo.jp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at a beginner with using coverage I wondered a lot about the huge 
> output and if I maybe misunderstood the intention of coverage. Because 
> it also checks the coverage of 3rd-party external packages that don't 
> belong to the project folder I'm currently in.
> I sidenote on the docs tell me about "--source=.". Then the output 
> looks nice and meaningful to me.
>
> Why isn't that default behaviour of coverage?
>
> Why would someone see the coverage of external packages?
>
> IMHO the source folder is very easy to discover for coverage by itself 
> with reading the pyproject.toml/setup.cfg or asking the package 
> metadata itself.
>
> Kind
> Christian
>
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