You can work from a binary installation to test your changes locally, but you'll need to rebuild the "system image" for changes to Julia code in base to take effect. Last I checked this detail is not explicitly documented anywhere, adding a sentence or two to CONTRIBUTING.md about this would be a good idea. On Windows there's a batch file bin/prepare-julia-env.bat to do this for you. Not sure whether the equivalent exists for the Ubuntu PPA or OS X dmg binary packages.
On Monday, April 14, 2014 11:33:15 AM UTC-7, Jeff Waller wrote: > > > > On Monday, April 14, 2014 11:36:40 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> The macros are defined here: >> >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/printf.jl#L750-L784 >> >> > Do I need to git the most up-to-date source for Julia as well and make a > language development environment? What's normally done here? >
