Using unregistered packages with Pluto

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#1

How can I use an unregistered package without breaking Pluto’s package management system?

I read about the custom local registry, but I do not want to go that route.

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#2

Pluto.activate_notebook_environment("notebook-file.jl") in a REPL will activate the environment from that notebook and then you should be able to just add stuff in the normal way with ]. 🎁 Package management · fonsp/Pluto.jl Wiki · GitHub section at the bottom has some details.

Edit: I misread that, if you want an unregistered package you need to use a Pkg cell for that:

begin
    import Pkg
    Pkg.activate(mktempdir())
    Pkg.add(...)
end

and install the unregistered ones in there.

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#3

But doesn’t this break Pluto’s package management system?

#4

You can ]add unregistered packages, can’t you?

#5

A somewhat hacky solution is to redefine a Pluto function:

function Pluto.use_plutopkg(topology::Pluto.NotebookTopology)
    !any(values(topology.nodes)) do node
        Symbol("Pkg.activate") ∈ node.references ||
        Symbol("Pkg.API.activate") ∈ node.references ||
        Symbol("quickactivate") ∈ node.references ||
        Symbol("@quickactivate") ∈ node.references
    end
end

before calling Pluto.run(). Then you can use Pkg.develop and Pkg.add in notebooks without disabling the Pluto package manager.
Has been working fine for me since the introduction of this feature in Pluto.