Timeout if projectPath ends with tilde (~) about unity-test-runner

[webbertakken]

I don't see why anyone would name their project folder something with a tilde in it so I would say this will not be supported behaviour for Unity Actions.

Could you perhaps describe your use case a little further so we can understand what is happening exactly? e.g. do you have a Unity project inside another Unity project or what else is different from a new project that could cause this behaviour?

[jsm174]

I totally agree about naming something with a tilde. The only reason I did that was because our project works as a Unity package. (Window -> Package Manager -> + -> Add Package from Disk)

When Unity opens up the project, it starts compiling code from the package, putting that compiled code under Library and then loops because it sees that the directory refreshed. So as a test, I added the tilde based on https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SpecialFolders.html

Anyway, I just made a branch that shows this behavior. I just wanted you to be aware of this issue.

https://github.com/jsm174/vpe_net_standard/tree/testrunner-tilde
https://github.com/jsm174/vpe_net_standard/runs/814149093?check_suite_focus=true

[webbertakken]

So it sounds like the package is in fact a unity project, not so much a compiled library or just some files. I don't know much about the correct way of doing this either though.

According the the documentation that you linked, making a folder as hidden or temporary will completely ignore it in Unity. I don't think that would be desired behaviour, so it probably won't be part of any solution. I think the timeout while searching things in a deliberately ignored folder could be seen as expected behaviour that's not unique to Test runner. Ideally Unity itself would give a descriptive warning or error when this happens.

I guess generally I would recommend not nesting unity projects at all, but rather exporting the child projects as packages and import these instead. That should at least solve your problem.