But Base.compilecache compiles every time right, not just when necessary?
So when looping over all packages after a "Pkg.update()", it would
recompile everything,
no matter if outdated or not?
On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 1:07:07 PM UTC+1, Tony Kelman wrote:
>
> Base.compilecache may be more reliable here.
>
>
> On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 2:41:39 AM UTC-8, Oliver Schulz wrote:
>>
>> The best I've come up with so far is
>>
>> for pkg in vcat(["IJulia"], collect(keys(Pkg.installed())))
>> if !isdefined(Symbol(pkg))
>> info("Importing $(pkg)...")
>> try (@eval import $(Symbol(pkg))) catch end
>> end
>> end
>>
>> I had to manually add IJulia because it's installed site-wide (in my
>> case). The try/catch prevents an abort if precompilation of a package fails
>> (e.g. because Julia has to be reloaded, as happens with some packages). I
>> found that I usually need to run this at least twice, from a clean state
>> (empty ".julia/lib").
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 12:58:10 PM UTC+1, Oliver Schulz wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to precompile all installed packages, e.g. after a
>>> `Pkg.update()`?
>>>
>>> This would come in handy when using a cluster of Julia machines (using
>>> an shared home dir on a network filesystem), to ensure precompilation is
>>> done before all machines load (and start precompiling) packages (e.g. from
>>> a shared home directory via a network filesystem).
>>>
>>> Also, as precompilation of many packages can take quite a bit of time,
>>> it would be nice to be able to choose when it happens (i.e. right now,
>>> instead later when I may want to give a tutorial or so ;-) ).
>>>
>>> Sorry if this is somewhere in the docs, I didn't find anything about it.
>>> I'd love to be able to just do `Pkg.update(precompile = true)` or so.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>>
