VSCode LOAD_PATH discussion

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@ufechner7

As background information, the reason why I am so frustrated is that this all used to work three years ago, but since 2.5 years it doesn’t work any more, and there seams to be no way forward to fix it.

I guess I see the problem.

Meanwhile:

1. Julia 1.0
2. new Pkg
3. reinvented workflow

So, while one can still consider it a vscode bug it is just not meant to be the common workflow. Thus, rather than complaining about missing support for pre-1.0 style (whose support is allowed to be dropped in 1.0 according to SemVer) you might need to go with the time and update your own workflow for the post Julia 1.0 world. Requesting stronger support in that direction is like requesting Tier 1 support for pre 1.0 Julia.

@ufechner7

Where can I find this information in the Julia documentation?

As kristoffer said, LOAD_PATH in the workflow & package sections can be considered outdated and thus an issue/PR would be a good idea.

But as that all won’t help you (and tbh I still am wrapping my own head around the new best practices/workflow) there are some resources & discussions which might help you wrapping yours around:

1. Workflow Tips · The Julia Language
2. Julia workflow
   and a few more which I can’t find right now. One of this community also wrote a blogpost last year IIRC.

Either way, Julia is (fortunately) still fast evolving, though, since 1.0 (sadly) only in a very restricted non-breaking manner. (Looking forward to 2.x).