The reason why these is a separation is because there are language constructs in 0.4 that are not available in 0.3, and so packages may have different versions themselves for 0.3 or 0.4. It is therefore not advisable to use the same directory for both 0.3 and 0.4. -E
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Tim Holy <[email protected]> wrote: > You can copy the REQUIRE file from your v0.3 directory into your 0.4 > directory, > then say Pkg.update(). That will give you the same packages. > > --Tim > > On Friday, September 04, 2015 09:02:19 AM Sisyphuss wrote: > > It is preferred to re-install the packages (version dedicated to 0.4), > for > > most packages working on 0.3 will not work on 0.4 > > > > On Friday, September 4, 2015 at 5:47:33 PM UTC+2, Fabrizio Lacalandra > wrote: > > > after have de installed julia 0.3.11, I upgraded to 0.4 dev but all the > > > packages installed previously cannot be found. > > > Then i found that the 0.4 installation created a new \v0.4 dir for them > > > and at the same time that it is possible to manually specify > > > the JULIA_PKGDIR env variable (under win 7) to point to the dir where > the > > > packages were previously present, in my case C:\Users\MILP\.julia\v0.3 > > > Question is, is that enought ? Is there a way to upgrade Julia from > 0.3.x > > > to 0.4 without having to set this env ? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Fabrizio > >
