Using development version of package opens Julia REPL

[MilesCranmer]

Affects: JuliaCall

Describe the bug

If I add a development dependency to my juliapkg.json, and then import my Python package, the Julia REPL will open. For example, on the pythoncall-try-3 branch of PySR, I modified juliapkg.json as follows:

{
    "julia": "1.6",
    "packages": {
        "SymbolicRegression": {
            "uuid": "8254be44-1295-4e6a-a16d-46603ac705cb",
            "dev": true,
            "path": "../SymbolicRegression.jl"
        },
        "ClusterManagers": {
            "uuid": "34f1f09b-3a8b-5176-ab39-66d58a4d544e",
            "version": "0.4"
        }
    }
}

I then install PySR and do import pysr. This gives me the following:

I am able to exit the Julia REPL which returns me to the Python REPL.

I tried with the version of PythonCall.jl in main and I still see this issue.

[MilesCranmer]

@cjdoris Seems like the same thing also happens when specifying a particular revision of a Git repository.

[MilesCranmer]

Can a fix for this be back ported to 0.9?

[cjdoris]

The main branch is 0.9.

I thought I fixed this on main a while back. Can you check again? If seems really weird that it would only happen for dev packages. Maybe juliapkg is not getting the version of PythonCall you think it's getting?

[MilesCranmer]

I haven’t seen this issue ever since. It must have been an old package. Closing until it reappears..