Alternative Package management

[BCRARL]

I use DrWatson.j for project and package management and I use Pluto.jl to interactively develop scripts that will be integrated into the overall project.

When I start Pluto it does not recognize the dependency for using statements following the activation of the new environment. How can I either set the environment ahead of time or force the dependency of using statements on the execution of the activation code?

[lungben]

You should be able to use shared environments with this pattern: https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/wiki/%F0%9F%8E%81-Package-management#pattern-the-shared-environment

[BCRARL]

Excellent that seems to have worked. Thank you!

[BCRARL]

Just to clarify, does this require that all packages to be used have to be in the first cell? That would be unfortunate as adding a package would require re-evaluation of the first cell.

[lungben]

You could split up the cells, but Pkg.add("MyPkg") und using MyPkg must be in the same cell for each package.
The cell using Pkg; Pkg.activate(mktempdir()) could also be in a separate cell.

[BCRARL]

So on Pluto 0.15.1 I can't separate the using statements and still have them executed in the correct order, i.e., after the activate statement. I'll have to test whether prepending using Pkg; to using statements in the activated environment will reintroduce the order.