# The future of REQUIRE and Project.toml for package managers
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-future-of-require-and-project-toml-for-package-managers/22618
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Created:** [April 1, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-future-of-require-and-project-toml-for-package-managers/22618 "2019-04-01T23:45:55Z")
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### Author:  [@colintbowers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/colintbowers)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-future-of-require-and-project-toml-for-package-managers/22618/1 "2019-04-01T23:45:55Z")
Hi all,
Various thread posts and things in the docs seem to suggest that the long-term plan for registered packages is to get rid of REQUIRE files and replace them with Project.toml files. Is this actually the case, or am I inferring things incorrectly?
Some posts, eg [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/require-vs-project-toml/21962) seem to suggest that REQUIRE will always be around and it might be easier to just stick with REQUIRE rather than moving to Project.toml. Is there a consensus on this?
Cheers,
Colin
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### Author:  [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-future-of-require-and-project-toml-for-package-managers/22618/2 "2019-04-02T02:28:22Z")
Yes, REQUIRE will be retired soon.
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### Author:  [@colintbowers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/colintbowers)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-future-of-require-and-project-toml-for-package-managers/22618/3 "2019-04-02T03:31:15Z")
Very clear answer, many thanks. 🙂