I recently learned about “shared environments”, aka the default v1.3 environment. It’s quite a revelation, but I don’t understand how it works. Suppose I have Package A which depends on B@v1.0.0, and is compatible with no other version of B. A is in the shared environment’s Project.toml. Environme…

[image] cstjean: does using A fail right away, With fail I just meant that package A might not work correctly because an incompatible version of B is loaded. Again, compat information does not influence what package is being loaded at all.

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hendri54 March 15, 2020, 12:22pm 2

I think you will find this useful:

Import the same package after activating new environment

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