Revise not working in WSL2?

General Usage
1

I have created a simple test project with the following structure:

.
├── Manifest.toml
├── Project.toml
├── main.jl
└── src
    └── TestRevise.jl

TestRevise.jl:

module TestRevise

export greet

greet() = print("Hello World!")

end

main.jl:

using Revise
using TestRevise

greet()

I activate the Julia project and run the main.jl in the REPL:

julia --project=.
julia> include("main.jl")
Hello World!

Then I change greet as follows:

greet() = print("Hello!")

And run main again:

julia> include("main.jl")

However, it still outputs “Hello World!”, so Revise seems to be not working at all.

Why?

2

Hi!
Welcome to Julia discourse.

If I understand correctly TestRevise is a package.
Then the only thing you need to do is

julia --project=.
julia> includet("main.jl")
Hello World!

Note the t in includet. This is a Revise function for tracking simple files.
I think this should work. You should be able to modifiy TestRevise.jl and without calling again includet(“main.jl”) you should be able to see the modifications.

Best,
Olivier

3

Thank you for your reply. I tried this:

julia> using Revise

julia> includet("main.jl")
[ Info: Precompiling TestRevise [02a7098f-09b0-4b01-acae-27578462e065]
Hello World!

# Changing to `greet()` to output "Hello"
julia> includet("main.jl")

# --> does not output anything anymore

Calling via includet after editing greet() results in no output at all.

4

So you don’t need to call includet(“main.jl”) again.

You call it just once, you then you make your modifications to TestRevise and/or main.jl you can call those modifications from the repl.

In your example you would just do from Julia repl

julia --project=.
julia> includet("main.jl")
Hello World!
# You then modify TestRevise.jl by making the change greet() = print("Hello!")
julia> greet()
Hello!
5

This does not work either. But I think I have found the issue.

I am using WSL2 and a mounted Windows drive:

After setting

export JULIA_REVISE_POLL=1

in the ~/.bashrc it works.

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6

ok, good you found the real issue!