I want to make some changes to my local install of SuiteSparse.jl and in the REPL I do ]dev SuiteSparse This create an image of the source code in ~/julia/dev/SuiteSparse that I can play with. However, importing the module with using SuiteSparse and then checking pathof(SuiteSparse) does not load…

Another way is [image] Testing changes to stdlib without remaking the whole of Julia Internals & Design If you have the Random stdlib at some other folder you can change its uuid, pkg> develop path/to/Random and then using Random will use that version. This also works with…

This should work. But if you loaded SuiteSparse before pkg> dev’ing it, you have to restart Julia.

It would be nice if this just worked but it doesn’t. dev should probably error on stdlibs. The reason it doesn’t work is the the stdlib is in the sysimg and when julia loads a package it checks if a package with that Uuid is already loaded. In that case it just uses the already loaded one. A worka…

]dev a standard library package

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carstenbauer May 30, 2019, 7:56am 4

Another way is

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