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]

How about the original source? https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/v1/

It doesn’t really outline workflow to use would this still be recommended workflow Add package to `project.toml` when needed only for testing?

For developing a (new) package it does outline a workflow and recommends PkgTemplates.jl: https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/v1/creating-packages/ [image] GitHub - JuliaCI/PkgTemplates.jl: Create new Julia packages, the easy way Create new Julia packages, the easy way. Contribute to Jul…

Thank you @oheil for great pointers! diving in :slight_smile:

Not sure whether this is still relevant, but beware of the differences between Packages for Julia {1.0, 1.1} and Julia {1.3 and above}: https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/v1/creating-packages/#Test-specific-dependencies-in-Julia-1.2-and-above-1 Enjoy! :slight_smile:

One surprising thing from the Developing Julia Packages video is advice to not include the Manifest.toml to the git repo :thinking: Repeatable builds tends to be a pretty important issue and in pretty much every other ecosystem the advice is pretty much the opposite…

That is recommended for packages, so that they are tested with versions offered by the resolver in CI. For projects, of course include a manifest.

Cool thank you for clarification makes sense

According to Pkg.jl documentations, there seems to be a new version of doing dev dependencies for julia above 1.2: Test-specific-dependencies-in-Julia-1.2-and-above This seems only work for ] test command. But by doing so, how can I have a dev environment which I can use interactively? I wish I c…

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You can create a test Project.toml, you just need to remove Test from [targets]. See also Using test/Project.toml - #4 by peterlane

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