Is it possible to force Julia to recompile cached code?
Background: I need to upload packages with unregistered dependencies to a remote machine.
If I develop these packages locally, Manifest.toml points to a directory that does not exist on the remote machine.
If I add these packages locally, Julia may or may not recognize that something has changed and recompile. I would like to force a recompile.
Thank you.
Relevant (also to your previous post): Experimenting and developing unregistered packages.
Why not dev a relative path?
I have to look at the link you provided in more detail tomorrow.
Regarding developing relative paths: I tried this and ended up with an error from Pkg from which I concluded that relative paths were not allowed in Manifests. Is that not true?
I use relative path in Manifest.toml all the time. It’s quite handy to use path = ".." in test/Manifest.toml, docs/Manifest.toml, etc. See:
My solution so far has been similar to the post suggested by @tkoolen, but more automatic (and complicated).
I upload code with rsync to the remote and run Pkg.develop(PackageSpec(D)) on all dependencies D each time the code is run. Not elegant, of course.
On the relative paths: what I tried was paths of the form “~/abc”; those did not work. I will try @tkf’s suggestion as well.
Thanks.
Coming back to my original question:
Can I force a recompile of an unregistered package?
I still have issues with code on the remote machine sometimes not loading because old versions of dependencies seems to be used when resolving dependencies. I don’t know why or when this happens.
One option may be: simply delete all subdirectories of ~/.julia/compiled/MyPackage.
Should I be worried about any terrible side-effects when I do this?
Much later reply to previous post, but I think it should be fine to delete the ~/.julia/compiled/vZ.Y/MyPackage/*.ji binaries and then just reload the package:
$ julia -O3
julia> using MyPackage
Thank you.
I have meanwhile switched to a completely different approach where I register all packages in a private registry. This works very well for me.