Precompiling error

[MartinImrisek]

Dear community,

I have problem with Gadfly and I don't know how to fix it (I did some code changes but with out success). When I want to plot some data I got this error :

[ Info: Precompiling Gadfly [c91e804a-d5a3-530f-b6f0-dfbca275c004]
ERROR: LoadError: syntax: try without catch or finally
Stacktrace:
[1] include at ./boot.jl:317 [inlined]
[2] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1038
[3] include(::Module, ::String) at ./sysimg.jl:29
[4] top-level scope at none:2
[5] eval at ./boot.jl:319 [inlined]
[6] eval(::Expr) at ./client.jl:389
[7] top-level scope at ./none:3
in expression starting at /home/imrisek/.julia/packages/Gadfly/ojGNo/src/Gadfly.jl:971
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile Gadfly [c91e804a-d5a3-530f-b6f0-dfbca275c004] to /home/imrisek/.julia/compiled/v1.0/Gadfly/DvECm.ji.
Stacktrace:
[1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33
[2] macro expansion at ./logging.jl:313 [inlined]
[3] compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1184
[4] macro expansion at ./logging.jl:311 [inlined]
[5] _require(::Base.PkgId) at ./loading.jl:941
[6] require(::Base.PkgId) at ./loading.jl:852
[7] macro expansion at ./logging.jl:311 [inlined]
[8] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./loading.jl:834
[9] include_string(::Module, ::String, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1002
[10] (::getfield(Atom, Symbol("##120#124")){String,String,Module})() at /home/imrisek/.julia/packages/Atom/jJn7Y/src/eval.jl:117
[11] withpath(::getfield(Atom, Symbol("##120#124")){String,String,Module}, ::String) at /home/imrisek/.julia/packages/CodeTools/8CjYJ/src/utils.jl:30
[12] withpath at /home/imrisek/.julia/packages/Atom/jJn7Y/src/eval.jl:46 [inlined]
[13] #119 at /home/imrisek/.julia/packages/Atom/jJn7Y/src/eval.jl:114 [inlined]
[14] hideprompt(::getfield(Atom, Symbol("##119#123")){String,String,Module}) at /home/imrisek/.julia/packages/Atom/jJn7Y/src/repl.jl:76
[15] macro expansion at /home/imrisek/.julia/packages/Atom/jJn7Y/src/eval.jl:113 [inlined]
[16] (::getfield(Atom, Symbol("##118#122")){Dict{String,Any}})() at ./task.jl:85
in expression starting at /home/imrisek/Dropbox/Julia/Plots/plotFakeData.jl:3

I'm running on Ubuntu 16.04., Julia 1.0.0. If you have some ideas I would be happy.
Martin

[bjarthur]

gadfly doesn't work yet on julia 1.0, but we're working on it.

[MartinImrisek]

Thank you for your reply.
So if I'll use Julia previous stable release (v0.7.0) it will work?
(Because I have try this version and didn't work
But I'll give another try with rebuilding all repos again)

[adyomin]

Have the same problem, my understanding is that you have to go back to v0.6.x as v0.7.0 is essentially equivalent to v1.0.0 save for feature depreciation warnings.

Update: This is most likely obvious to everybody in the community but for those who are new as I am, you can safely use both Julia v0.6.4 and Julia v1.0.0 at he same time (at least this works perfectly fine with macOS). To do this (assuming that you use Gadfly with Jupyter and have already updated to v1.0.0):

• install v.0.6.4
• create a separate symlink for the 0.6 binary (e.g. ln -s /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia /usr/local/bin/julia-0.6)
• once you launch julia-0.6 you get access to the old package manager which will install packages into a separate folder (~/.julia/v0.6 instead of ~/.julia/packages)
• if you have an existing Jupyter installation that you'd prefer to use set ENV["JUPYTER"]="path/to/the/prefered/jupyter/binary" before installing IJulia
• install IJulia and Gadfly as usual

IJulia will automatically add a separate Jupyter kernel and you should be good to go.

[tlnagy]

I'm going to close this as we don't yet support 0.7/1.0 as @bjarthur mentioned above. I would keep an eye on #1158 for movement. There's been a ton of work done on getting all of Gadfly's dependencies to work on 0.7 and I think the current biggest hangup is Compose.jl.

[tlnagy]

Also thanks @adyomin for the example of installing Gadfly on Julia v0.6.4 which is the latest supported release.