Test with popular packages

[KristofferC]

Plots DataFrames Gadfly PyPlot etc

[bjarthur]

i can confirm Gadfly 1.2 can be compiled with julia 1.3.1 (not 1.3.0) and a 0-day master of PackageCompilerX using:

create_sysimage(:Gadfly, sysimage_path="GadflySysImage.so", precompile_execution_file=".julia/dev/Gadfly/test/runtests.jl")

[KristofferC]

Thanks for testing

[davidanthoff]

Maybe even just test it with all registered packages? Maybe there could be an extensive test file here in the repo, that just tries to compile every existing package into a sysimg. For making this whole thing more robust, that might be the best strategy?

[KristofferC]

Not feasible, would take days. Some popular packages + regression tests for bugs should be enough.

[davidanthoff]

I was not thinking as a regular thing, just a one-time thing to get corner cases sorted out.