Just as a general piece of advice, you will have a much easier time upgrading code if you take the time to go through every Julia version, rather than skipping all the way to 1.0. If the code was written for Julia v0.5, then I would suggest:
- Test with 0.5
- Test with 0.6 and fix any deprecation warnings
- Test with 0.7 and fix any deprecation warnings
- Test with 1.0
That way you’ll get precise deprecation messages that tell you how to change the code, rather than just having to guess what functions that no longer exist used to do.