Julians seem to keep their .jl files under ~/.julia/dev. Why is this? Is this location used somehow by “import”, “using”, or “include”? In C, I’m used to keeping source files under ~/src, then copying executables into ~/bin and libraries into ~/lib. Then I can use the executables and libraries from…

In short, you can put your Julia source files wherever you want. ~/.julia/dev just happens to be a common default. If you like to access them from ~/src, you could always do ln -s ~/.julia/dev ~/src/juliapkgs on a *nix system. As others have explained, Pkg.develop and other tools such as PkgTempla…

I have my source files either in a package, that is the package‘s src/ folder or a specific repository/folder with example scripts (usually then either Pluto or Quarto notebooks). And I usually start (at least a local) package as soon as I want to share common code between notebooks. But the packag…

[image] alan: Julians seem to keep their .jl files under ~/.julia/dev That’s where Pkg, the package manager, by default stores registered packages you dev (install for development). This section of the documentation explains how Julia code can be loaded, implying how one could go about organ…

] dev name_of_package always seemed like a bad feature to me. If I want to dev-install something, I’ll manually clone its repository to ~/Documents/Programming and the do Pkg.develop(path="~/Documents/Programming/name_of_package"). The ~/.julia folder is best kept transient so that you can delete i…

When you start Julia in the base folder of your project ] dev . is a nice shortcut to take a (locally checked out) package in development mode.

Sure, but that doesn’t put anything into ~/.julia/dev, right? At least I think it’s equivalent to the more verbose Pkg.develop(path=".") which makes the current environment use the package implementation in the current working directory, and which I definitely use myself. I’m not opposed to the sho…

Actually, there is one use case where dev-installing into ~/.julia/dev can be very useful: debugging. If there’s something weird going on in some random package that I’m not the developer of, it’s an easy way to make sure the weird behavior is still present in the master branch, and to add some debu…

Thanks to everyone who replied. These comments were extremely helpful.

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