How do people use Julia nightly?

[gdalle]

Hi there,

I keep seeing messages about how 1.10 is gonna be even faster and cooler than 1.9, so of course I wanna do like the cool kids and give it a try.

As far as I can tell, there are two main ways to download it:

• Get the nightly binary
• Clone the repo and build from source

Then there is the question of how to set the path, which I prefer to handle with juliaup. In particular, I think the following command can be handy:

juliaup link dev ~/juliasrc/julia configures the dev channel to use a binary that you provide that is located at ~/juliasrc/julia.

Until nightlies are fully integrated with juliaup, I see no other option but to either redownload the binary or pull and rebuild regularly. Has anyone found a better workaround?

Related:

Installing Julia Nightly with juliaup

I used to use jill.py to manage Julia installation. It supported installing the latest nightly version (i.e. 1.9), but I don’t see how to get juliaup to install it. Is there a way to do so?

[AMJ]

Do you need the latest pulls for any specific reason?

If Im looking forward to any specific pull/issue, I just wait till it’s fully merged/all the checks are green, then just download the nightly built version from the site. I find the hassle of building from source unenjoyable .

[gdalle]

No, in this instance I just enjoy the shorter type display in the stack traces. So I don’t care about having only this week’s or even this month’s build, I just want something slightly more recent than the current release, which dates back months

[AMJ]

My understanding was that the nightly builds are usually a few days old if there has been a recent merged pull. This is the current one in the site:

[gdalle]

Even a few weeks old is fine by me. I don’t care about “nightly” as much as “monthly”

[Tamas_Papp]

@gdalle

so of course I wanna do like the cool kids and give it a try

This is fine, but make sure you have the right risk tolerance for your application.

Eg nowadays I use the latest stable release for “production” (ie to get actual work done, without distractions) because it has gotten so great, unless I have a compelling need for some feature or want t explore something. YMMV.

[Oscar_Smith]

I would recommend cloning and building is yourself. that way the update process is just a git pull and make -j

[joa-quim]

A further advantage for package developers is that 1.10 has a parallel compiling. For me it reduces the compile time from ~90 sec to ~50 sec.

[tbeason]

Yea it would be cool for juliaup to eventually allow for a nightly channel.

[lmiq]

@joa-quim

A further advantage for package developers is that 1.10 has a parallel compiling. For me it reduces the compile time from ~90 sec to ~50 sec.

I was not aware of that, really cool. Really improves the installation time here, which became sort of an annoyance with all the code cashing of 1.9.