Pkg.add fetches the latest published version of the package (which resides in Metadata). That is not necessarily the master version. This is so that package developers working on new features don't inadvertently break a lot of folks' code. That being said, it is up to the package developer to tag and publish new versions to ensure that bug fixes reach users.
On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 11:55:01 AM UTC-7, Colin Beckingham wrote: > > I just ran into the situation with a Julia package where testing with the > version of the package obtained by Pkg.add was broken with respect to the > test process. Pkg.checkout followed by Pkg.build gave me the master version > which worked fine in test. Does this necessarily imply that Pkg.add is > fetching the wrong version? >
