I am interested in learning best practices and people’s experiences with updating a package to support a new version of Julia. I have written a few packages which all support julia v0.5, and will soon start the work of updating them to support v0.6. What strategy do you find suitable? Work in a ne…

I’d run it and fix all depwarns using Compat.jl and if you hit too many case that can’t be fixed without conditional (include), you can use different branches. I haven’t got any issue fixing breackage on 0.6 so far.

I find there always are two distinct stages in taking a package from one version to the next. Packages with users who are required to stay with the erstwhile current version of Julia for a while may need extra attention. I have written some small and some large packages. When moving from v0.3 to …

Thanks for your replies! It seems the strategy I used last time it was updating times is reasonable. I also find Julia’s deprecation system quite useful when upgrading. One thing I have been thinking about is whether or not some of the language changes might cause bugs that do not neccesarily gener…

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