How Julia's virtual environment physically store the packages added in the environment?

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Hi,
I am trying to understand the environment in Julia which can be initiated in ] Pkg mode with activate . But when I add a new package with a specific version with add where it physically installed? For example in Python if I create an environment with conda conda create -n newenv python==3.7 the it create an environment in ..../miniconda3/envs/ and all the environments are there so If I add any package it will be installed in ..../miniconda3/envs/newenv/site-packages/ physically. But in case of Julia where the Packages installed physically or how to access them?

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All the packages are physically downloaded in the .julia/packages folder, regardless of the environment you added them in.

When you activate . you tell julia to create a new environment in the current folder (pwd()) by creating a Project.toml and Manifest.toml file an save them in the same current folder. This file contains a list of the packages you added in this new environment, but physically they all reside in .julia/packages (even if you added multiple versions of the same package in different environments).

More info here:
https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/v1/getting-started/

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Additionally you can use pathof to find exactly where a module has been loaded from.

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That Fantastic, just tried it with help: pathof(m::Module) any one in future will bump here can use pathof with module name pathof(ProjectFlow) to see the path.

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Note that in most cases, you don’t need to know the path of the files that make up a package. The idea is that the package manager and code loading will take of this for you.

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if you want to access them directly, odds are that you should not be using ] add
but rather ] dev, and for my perference i suggest ] dev --local which will put them relative to your current Project.toml in dev/<pkgname>.

Though if you just want to look at the source,
I suggest: using @less or @edit (but don’t change anything) in the REPL.
Or usine methods(...) then typing the number of the one you want to look at and pressing ctrl+q.
(or the same in response to a stack trace.)
Or using Cthulu.jl

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