Is there a short version of: `Pkg.TOML.parse(open("Project.toml"))["deps"] |> keys |> collect .|> Pkg.add`?

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I was trying to add the required depedencies from a repo with a Project.toml file. I tried
activate/update/resolve etc. They did things… except seemingly add any packages. I finally used the
code snippet above to read the file and add the packages therein.

I’m obviously missing something.

Very confused.

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I don’t really understand why you wold want to do this. You can just start Julia with --project in the repo or call Pkg.activate(...) with the path to the repo and then do Pkg.instantiate() and off you go.

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Sometimes I instantiate a project and nothing seems to happen, but it’s because I already have all of the dependencies installed (generally from another project with similar requirements). If you do using ... for one of the dependencies, does it work?

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It’s an odd package… It’s a server written in julia and not destined for the REPL. There’s
a supervisord service that just has basically: /path/to/bin/julia /path/to/repo/startup.jl.

(So it’s running in the main ~/.julia/environments/v1.5/ environment).

As I said all my attempts with the REPL package manager failed. That little snippet did the trick (I guess it is using the package manger!) … but I don’t know why I couldn’t do it an “official” way.

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The “official” way would be something like

/path/to/bin/julia --project=/path/to/repo /path/to/repo/startup.jl

where the top of startup.jl would have

using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate()

alternatively:

/path/to/bin/julia --project=/path/to/repo -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.instanttiate()'
/path/to/bin/julia --project=/path/to/repo /path/to/repo/startup.jl

This seem strange, why don’t you want to isolate the server environment?

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