I am trying to set a minimum Julia version for a package I am developing.
I may be misunderstanding something, but I thought from the docs (10. Project.toml and Manifest.toml · Pkg.jl) that the way to do this is to put
[compat]
julia = "1.7.0"
into my Project.toml to declare that only julia-1.7.0 or newer (but less than julia-2.0.0) is supported.
However, after doing this, if I launch julia-1.6.5 and try to instantiate the package, I get a cryptic error message (included below), where I had expected something like ‘not compatible with julia<=1.7.0’. The actual error message is identical to the one I get if I remove the [compat] section from my Project.toml, so it seems my expectation that the entry there would do something is incorrect?
$ ~/pkg/julia-1.6.5/bin/julia --project
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_ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
(_) | (_) (_) |
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.6.5 (2021-12-19)
_/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official https://julialang.org/ release
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(moment_kinetics) pkg> instantiate
ERROR: AssertionError: sourcepath !== nothing
Stacktrace:
[1] is_package_downloaded(ctx::Pkg.Types.Context, pkg::Pkg.Types.PackageSpec)
@ Pkg.Operations /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:1789
[2] #13
@ /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:131 [inlined]
[3] _all
@ ./reduce.jl:923 [inlined]
[4] #all#698
@ ./reducedim.jl:886 [inlined]
[5] all
@ ./reducedim.jl:886 [inlined]
[6] is_instantiated(ctx::Pkg.Types.Context)
@ Pkg.Operations /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:131
[7] instantiate(ctx::Pkg.Types.Context; manifest::Nothing, update_registry::Bool, verbose::Bool, platform::Base.BinaryPlatforms.Platform, allow_build::Bool, allow_autoprecomp::Bool, kwargs::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{}, Union{}, Tuple{}, NamedTuple{(), Tuple{}}})
@ Pkg.API /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/API.jl:1358
[8] instantiate
@ /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/API.jl:1325 [inlined]
[9] #instantiate#252
@ /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/API.jl:1321 [inlined]
[10] instantiate()
@ Pkg.API /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/API.jl:1321
[11] do_cmd!(command::Pkg.REPLMode.Command, repl::REPL.LineEditREPL)
@ Pkg.REPLMode /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:405
[12] do_cmd(repl::REPL.LineEditREPL, input::String; do_rethrow::Bool)
@ Pkg.REPLMode /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:386
[13] do_cmd
@ /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:377 [inlined]
[14] (::Pkg.REPLMode.var"#24#27"{REPL.LineEditREPL, REPL.LineEdit.Prompt})(s::REPL.LineEdit.MIState, buf::IOBuffer, ok::Bool)
@ Pkg.REPLMode /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:550
[15] #invokelatest#2
@ ./essentials.jl:708 [inlined]
[16] invokelatest
@ ./essentials.jl:706 [inlined]
[17] run_interface(terminal::REPL.Terminals.TextTerminal, m::REPL.LineEdit.ModalInterface, s::REPL.LineEdit.MIState)
@ REPL.LineEdit /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/REPL/src/LineEdit.jl:2441
[18] run_frontend(repl::REPL.LineEditREPL, backend::REPL.REPLBackendRef)
@ REPL /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/REPL/src/REPL.jl:1126
[19] (::REPL.var"#44#49"{REPL.LineEditREPL, REPL.REPLBackendRef})()
@ REPL ./task.jl:411