Pkg.jl: "Activating environment at ..." message is confusing to new users

[marius311]

I sent a project to a collaborator who is a new-ish Julia user. This included a Project.toml / Manifest.toml. They were aware that Manifest.toml includes the exact versions of things so that its what is needed to fully recreate an environment.

When they ran activate project_folder/ to start setting things up, it prints:

Activating environment at project_folder/Project.toml

However, this confused them because they thought maybe they were supposed to have "activated Manifest.toml" rather than Project.toml, since its the former that actually contains the package versions they knew were neeed. Although I hadn't thought of this myself, looking through the eyes of a new user, I actually totally agree this is confusing.

Is there a reason to explicitly highlight Project.toml in that message? I wonder if it might better to just say Activating environment at project_folder/ to avoid confusion?

[KristofferC]

Yeah, that seems fine. I also think we should say project instead of environment.