# Using someone else's project with Pkg3
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-someone-elses-project-with-pkg3/12640
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [July 24, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-someone-elses-project-with-pkg3/12640 "2018-07-24T22:25:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-someone-elses-project-with-pkg3/12640/1 "2018-07-24T22:25:39Z")
In Julia 0.7, if I clone the repository of an unregistered package to `~/.julia/dev` is still necessary to manually add this directory to `LOAD_PATH` in order to use someone else’s project as outlined [here](https://julialang.org/Pkg.jl/latest/index.html#Using-someone-else%27s-project-1)?
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-someone-elses-project-with-pkg3/12640/2 "2018-07-25T06:17:53Z")
You can just `pkg> dev ~/.julia/dev/Package` to make it available to your current project.
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-someone-elses-project-with-pkg3/12640/3 "2018-07-25T20:11:53Z")
Thank you, this solved my issue. This doesn’t seem to be documented, is it? I did try `dev AstroBase` (didn’t work), couldn’t figure out I needed to use the path.
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-someone-elses-project-with-pkg3/12640/4 "2018-07-25T21:08:10Z")
It does say that you can dev a path. But what needs to be more clear is that `.julia/dev` is not special in any way (like `julia/v0.6` was). It’s just a default place to put registered packages that are devved by name.