# What is the proper incantation of \[compat\]

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-proper-incantation-of-compat/13914>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package\
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-proper-incantation-of-compat/13914 "2018-08-23T02:13:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-proper-incantation-of-compat/13914/1 "2018-08-23T02:13:46Z")

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I’ve had

```julia
[compat]
julia 0.7

```

in my Project.toml. However, ]dev resulted in an error:

```julia
(v0.7) pkg> dev ./FinEtools
ERROR: Pkg.TOML.ParserError(149, 150, "expected `=`, but found `0`")

```

When I removed it, the package manager command succeeded. It appears the package manager doesn’t like that. Did I mis-form the compatibility specification?

EDIT: I’ve had an enlightening thought, and it worked. It appears that nowadays this thing should read

```julia
[compat]
julia = "0.7"

```

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-proper-incantation-of-compat/13914/2 "2018-08-23T05:33:56Z")

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You may find [the documentation](https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/latest/#Compatibility-1) useful.