Package development of a not yet public package

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I am having a little trouble with package development. It seems, Pkg3 prefers to do some caching here and there.

I hava a MyPack.jl/ folder containing my package (with git repository src/``docs/ test/ and such)
When I am in Atom (Juno) I do something like
>pkg develop .
which adds a relative path from the .Julia/ folder in my home dir to said MyPack.jl/folder.

Then I can just run the tests (include('test/runtests.jl')or generate the documentation (that’s what I am working on at this moment) include('docs/make.jl'). Either way I might have a bug somewhere, let’s say even in an early stage at compile time, so this include errors…

On the old 0.6 (where I had the MyPack.jlin my PATH) I fix the bug and restarted Julia (maybe even that could get nicer) and would just using MyPackor reissue above test/make.

On 0.7 however with the above approach it quite often keeps the bug I just fixed (and I am sure I saved the file and such).
The one thing that does work is a git commit, but for every character that I fix and test a commit would really clutter my history.
Neither pkg> update . nor pkg> update MaPack nor a new pkg> develop . solve this issue, also neither of them after restarting Julia.

So what’s the best workflow to develop a package with Julia 0.7/1.0 and Pkg3 (with Atom on Mac OS for example)?

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Could you show status output. It seems that you have done add and is tracking the repo instead of the actual files.

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Actually that is exactly what I fear it does. So in any way I would be interested in how to do the one and the other to learn the difference :slight_smile:

(v0.7) pkg> status
    Status `~/.julia/environments/v0.7/Project.toml`
  [c52e3926] Atom v0.7.3
  [e30172f5] Documenter v0.19.6
  [e5e0dc1b] Juno v0.5.2
  [0fc0a36d] MyPack v0.0.0 [`~/.julia/environments/v0.7/../../../Repositories/Software/MyPack.jl`]
  [0796e94c] Tokenize v0.5.2
  [d6f4376e] Markdown
  [10745b16] Statistics

Also note the version number, since I did not yet get used to the Project.toml (for example looking up uuids for deps) and I am glad having gotten REQUIRE to work

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That looks indeed like it is tracking by path. What does Base.find_package("MyPack") say?

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Seems to be right:
"/Users/[...]/Repositories/Software/MyPack.jl/src/MyPack.jl"– so maybe in one of the restarts I did the right thing to switch to not using the git repository but the folder.

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Check out Revise.jl if you want to reduce the number of times that you need to restart julia.

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That looks really neat. I am still missing (just a few) things that made writing code in Matlab nice (wile a lot other are already far better in Julia) – Revise seems to fix one dev-step for me :slight_smile: (just a few plot features to go then).

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