# Lost in transition: the current state of the Julia ecosystem?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lost-in-transition-the-current-state-of-the-julia-ecosystem/5515>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 22, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lost-in-transition-the-current-state-of-the-julia-ecosystem/5515 "2017-08-22T20:24:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 6:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/lost-in-transition-the-current-state-of-the-julia-ecosystem/5515/15 "2017-08-23T06:20:01Z")

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> [@essenciary](#):
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> they have all been updated. I don’t know why I didn’t get the new versions in Pkg.update(), maybe I messed up something in METADATA.

This happens to me routinely. [I asked why](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/diagnostics-for-pkg-update-non-latest-version/5496), but did not get replies yet. I moved my own packages out of `~/.julia/v0.6` so that I can wipe and reinstall it every month or so, and I am in the process of [figuring out how to run tests for them](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/run-tests-for-a-package-outside-julia-v0-6/5506/).

“Running `Pkg.update()` routinely” turned out to provide the illusion of being up to date. Some packages were 2-3 (!) minor versions behind.

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