How to install the newest version of a package?

[mkitti]

@ufechner7

KiteModels#v0.6.3

In case it is not clear, there is a difference between add KiteModels#v0.6.3 and add KiteModels@0.6.3.

[ericphanson]

@ufechner7

So perhaps I had an outdated registry. Where is the registry stored?

The registry is stored in the depot, under the registries subdirectory.

@ufechner7

Is there one registry stored per project, or one per Julia depot?

There is one per depot.

@ufechner7

When does Julia fetch a new version of the registry?

As I mentioned here, by default fetches a new registry on the first pkg command in the session, and you will see a log message saying it is updating the registry, but you may have disabled this in your startup.jl (I don’t know). It also updates automatically when you run update (but that also updates your packages).

@ufechner7

Is there a command to force that?

You can run ] registry update to update the registries manually.

[ufechner7]

@mkitti

In case it is not clear, there is a difference between add KiteModels#v0.6.3 and add KiteModels@0.6.3.

What is the difference?

[mkitti]

The first one with the # specifies a git revision. The second one with the @ specifies a package version.