Pointing Julia Studio at a different binary

Question

I'm on mac.

As far as I know, even though Julia 0.3 is now officially released, Julia Studio still comes prepackaged with Julia 0.2. So I went to the package contents of Julia 0.3 and pointed the path in Julia Studio at the julia folder for Julia 0.3, however I received the error message:

Error: Failed to start Julia.
Expected location: /opt/Julia_Studio/bin/julia-basic/bin/julia-basic

So I changed the julia executable in the bin folder from 'julia' to 'julia-basic', to see if that would fix things. What happened instead was I got a bunch of deprecation warnings and while the julia interactive prompt loaded, when I tried to execute a command and hit return it just sits there stupidly not giving me anything back. What do?

Answer 1

It's possible, but only for point releases.

Julia as a language is evolving rapidly. Each release of Julia Studio works only for a specific version. Forio will be release new versions of Julia Studio with support for the official Julia 0.3 release soon. The current master branch at https://github.com/forio/julia-studio supports Julia 0.3 but building on OSX is somewhat involved.

Disclaimer: I work for Forio

Answer 2

Last time I checked Julia Studio, it was not possible to point it at an external Julia release. This was a limitation I have heard others complain about as well.

I cannot tell if and when this limitation is overcome.

When it is capable of pointing at an external release, I will take another look at Julia Studio.