Say I’m working on a project and want to plot something so I add a plotting package for looking at some test data. But when my package is actually built and deployed, I don’t want the plotting package and all of its dependencies to be shipped with it. Is there a recommended way to use libraries wh…

Best practice for temporarily loading a package without polluting Manifest.toml and Project.toml?

giordano October 31, 2021, 3:50pm 2

]activate --temp

is the temporary project overlay you’re looking for

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