ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: UndefVarError: Dir not defined

[scls19fr]

Hello,

I'm trying to use with Julia 0.7 a library which was written for Julia 0.6

When doing

using ThisLibrary

I'm getting the following error:

ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: UndefVarError: Dir not defined

Maybe we should have a depreciation warning instead.

Kind regards

[KristofferC]

Pkg.Dir was never part of the Pkg API, Pkg.dir was and it has a deprecation warning. Also, Pkg.dir should seldom be used inside packages.

[scls19fr]

$ /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?help" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.6.4 (2018-07-09 19:09 UTC)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official http://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |  x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0

julia> Pkg.Dir
Base.Pkg.Dir

help?> Pkg.Dir
  No documentation found.

  No docstring or README.md found for module Base.Pkg.Dir.

Maybe we should consider using convention like Python with _ so it's more explicit that it's not part of API

[KristofferC]

The call the package is actually doing is Pkg.Dir._pkgroot() though.

[scls19fr]

With Julia 0.6

julia> Pkg.Dir._pkgroot()
"/Users/scls/.julia"

How can it be replaced for Julia 0.7?

[KristofferC]

The package manager system used right now is very different so there is no direct translation that would work the same way.

[StefanKarpinski]

I don’t think there’s anything actionable here. This package was using an internal private function of the ackage manager which does not exist anymore.