Don't add julia bin dir to path

[davidanthoff]

Would it make more sense to create a symlink as recommended in the julia docs? That generally seems less intrusive, and generally there seems to be a fair bit of stuff in the bin folder that doesn't need to be on the PATH.

[betatim]

Happy to follow the lead of someone who has experience with Julia and knows what makes things feel "Julia-thonic" (What is Pytohnic for Julia?). Something to look out for is "does it break things that currently work, even if they are 'against the proper way of doing things'". I think we should be conservative in terms of breaking things that people might be relying on.

[davidanthoff]

I'm pretty positive that this wouldn't break anything. Plus, we can only do this for the Project.toml case, not the REQUIRE case, where we don't have any backwards compat issues because no one is using this right now :)

[NHDaly]

Yeah I think this sounds good. That said, I also think that there was never anything in the bin/ directory except the julia binary and in v0.6- the julia-debug binary. So i don't think this is much of a concern one way or the other. (And, to be fair, the docs you pointed to list both options as valid):

To run Julia, you can do any of the following:

• Create a symbolic link to julia inside a folder which is on your system PATH
• Add Julia's bin folder to your system PATH environment variable
• Invoke the julia executable by using its full path, as in /bin/julia

But i don't see any harm if you think the symlinks are better for some reason?

[davidanthoff]

I actually tried this, and it didn't work. For some reason it then couldn't find the libjulia anymore. I'm pretty sure one could get it to work somehow, but I think I won't try longer :)

So I'd say this is clearly very, very low priority, and we could almost certainly also just leave things the way they are.