Is there a good write up that explains things in decent detail you could recommend?

This one also looks quite good: https://tlienart.github.io/pub/julia/dev-pkg.html And if you like videos, @ChrisRackauckas explains it in quite some detail and length :wink: [Developing Julia Packages]

Is there concept of dev dependencies in Pkg?

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andre1sk September 30, 2020, 9:04am 10

Cool thank you for clarification makes sense

Suggestion: Pkg inherit-manifest (similar to "Test-specific dependencies")

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