Julia 0.6 and 0.7 living together in harmony in one environment

General Usage
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You also shouldn’t need to set JULIA_HOME or JULIA_BINDIR to anything. Julia will automatically pick up its home from wherever the binary lives if those environment variables are not set. e.g.

   _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?help" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.5.2 (2017-05-06 16:34 UTC)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official http://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

julia> JULIA_HOME
"/home/rdeits/apps/julia-0.5.2/bin"

   _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?help" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.6.2 (2017-12-13 18:08 UTC)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official http://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

julia> JULIA_HOME
"/home/rdeits/apps/julia-0.6.2/bin"

   _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?help" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.7.0-DEV.3740 (2018-02-07 15:44 UTC)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Commit e87982096a (19 days old master)
|__/                   |  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

julia> Sys.BINDIR
"/home/rdeits/apps/julia-0.7-e87982096a/bin"
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