This is a guide for local development of a Julia package in Julia 1.0 and above.
tl;dr: We use a new environment to ensure that our regular Julia environment is not affected.
Navigate to ~/.julia/environments
. This folder should contain the default environment. (I am currently working in Julia 1.0, so the environments folder contains the folder v1.0
).
From the same folder, make a new project by running julia
, then entering the Pkg
repl by pressing ]
from julia
.
Upon entering the Pkg REPL, you should see a prompt like this: