I am looking for some brave Windows users that are willing to test drive a new installer for Julia on Windows that is called Juliaup. Juliaup is a new Julia version manager for Windows that is distributed via the Windows Store and manages your Julia installation on Windows. Juliaup makes it easy to keep your Julia installation up-to-date and to manage multiple Julia versions on one system. Juliaup is currently in preview, but should be fairly stable and ready for real world usage. If you want to try it, here is what you should do: Make sure you don’t have any version of Julia on your PATH. Juliaup will handle all PATH related aspects of your Julia installation. Install Julia from the Windows Store here. Once you have that installed, julia is on the PATH, there is a start menu shortcut and it will show up as a profile in Windows Terminal. Any of those will start Julia. The VS Code extension will also automatically find this Julia installation. I am currently shipping an outdated version of Julia out-of-the-box. This is on purpose, so that you can experience Juliaup first hand! When you start Julia, you should see a message that tells you that you are using an outdated Julia version, and that you can update to the latest version with juliaup update. Just run that from a command prompt, and then everything should be up-to-date. That is the same experience you’ll have in the future when a new Julia version is released. There are more things you can do with juliaup: juliaup status shows you which Julia versions you have installed and which one is configured as the default. juliaup add 1.5.1 adds Julia 1.5.1 to your system. juliaup setdefault 1.5.3 configures the julia command to start Julia 1.5.3. juliaup setdefault 1.6 configures the julia command to start the latest 1.6.x version of Julia you have installed on your system (and inform you if there is a newer version in 1.6.x available). juliaup setdefault 1 configures the julia command to start the latest 1.x version of Julia (this is also the default value). juliaup remove 1.5.3 deletes Julia 1.5.3 from your system. juliaup add 1.6.1~x86 installs the 32 bit version of Julia 1.6.1 on your system. juliaup setdefault 1.6~x86 configures the julia command to start the latest 1.6.x 32 bit version of Julia you have installed on your system. juliaup shows you what other commands are available. This entire system around juliaup installs Julia versions into ~/.julia/juliaup. If you want to restart from scratch, just delete that entire folder. The code for Juliaup and the installer is hosted at GitHub - JuliaLang/juliaup: Julia installer and version multiplexer. Most of it is written in Julia itself, so it should be fairly easy to help and contribute :slight_smile: Which of course would be fantastic! There is a long list of improvements that would make things work smoother, we need help with the artwork for the store listing, and it would be great if some folks would try to port this to Mac and Linux! The caveat for all of this is: this is a preview release, and things might be broken or break. If you have a deadline coming up and need a working Julia version, this is not for you! If you do try this, please report back about your experience here! In particular if things work, before we could make this a more official option we need some confirmation that things actually work for folks.

Yes, exactly! And that whole part is actually handled by the MSIX installer engine that ships with Windows 10, the way we hook into this is that we just declare that we want something to appear on the path in this line in the setup program.

Haha, fair point, although it was true as well for regular Juno without JuliaPro, which I guess is what most people use in practice. I guess I wanted to point out that a significant part of the Julia userbase is used to (or has unknowingly accepted) the fact that the “official” Julia IDE runs on multiple threads by default.

Oh, sorry, I completely missed the context of your comment, I was thinking that you were talking about something entirely different (namely bundling a lot of software together) :slight_smile:

Oh OK, thanks for the clarification @oheil! I was actually looking for “julia” somewhere in the path so completely missed that… And you were right @davidanthoff, it was indeed a path I had entered manually (which I assumed would be gone when I uninstalled the extension). Everything works like a charm now, thanks!!

Is there a way to include git bash in this kind of setup? Julia without git would not help me.

[image] Portable Julia General Usage An update has been posted: http://hogwarts.ucsd.edu/~pkrysl/shared/Portable_Julia-1.6.zip Julia 1.6 release candidate 1 is used. The newest VS code. The user’s system does not need to have Git installed: the portable version of it is included. All the user needs to do is to double-click a batch file: everything installs itself, and VS code pops up preconfigured for work with Julia. Thanks to Julia 1.6 the installation is much quicker than it used to be: 4 minutes flat till the editor comes up o…

[image] ufechner7: Is there a way to include git bash in this kind of setup? Julia without git would not help me. I don’t think I want Juliaup to go in the direction of bundling more stuff, in my view it should really just be for Julia and nothing else. Maybe other tools that bundle more things could sit on top of it, not sure… But I think with the release of winget the entire situation should just get a lot easier, I’m pretty sure winget install git should be enough to get git installed on Windows already. And then once we think that Juliaup is stable, winget install julia would be enough to get this Juliaup/Julia story installed.

With Juliaup there is now only one single big Julia app in Win10 showing in the list of installed programs, with possibly many versions encapsulated inside it. In snapshot below, Julia 1.6.1 was the legacy installation, while Juliaup’s installed “Julia” containing in this case 2 versions after updating: [Juliaup] Assume that hobby Julia users can safely remove the different installations of Julia and work from now on with Juliaup only?

[image] rafael.guerra: Assume that hobby Julia users can safely remove the different installations of Julia and work from now on with Juliaup only? Yes, that is correct, if you use the Juliaup story you’ll only have one entry in the list of installed programs and can uninstall all the other Julia versions you might have on your system. One caveat: at the moment Juliaup only supports Julia 1.5.1 and newer, so if you have older versions installed you might want to hold on to them a little bit longer. I’m working on fixing this right now, pretty confident that we’ll have support for every Julia version since probably 0.7 in Juliaup in a few days.

I should mention one other caveat: if you uninstall Juliaup, it won’t uninstall the Julia versions that you installed using juliaup, i.e. all of those Julia versions will stay around in ~/.julia/juliaup! In a way this is now similar to the situation with packages and artifacts that you install using Julia: those are also not removed when you uninstall Julia from your system. I’m not super happy about that aspect of things, but a) it is not clear to me right now how I could fix this easily and b) it seems in line with packages and artifacts, so I think at the moment the general rule just is that to really get rid of Julia on your system you need to uninstall it and delete your .julia folder.

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