Since you already have your own BioJulia installation of Registrator.jl, you might find it helpful to set up AutoMerge on the BioJuliaRegistry.

cc: @benjward

I have 3 packages in the BioJulia registry, Microbiome.jl, MicrobiomePlots.jl, and BiobakeryUtils.jl, and ever since I started trying to add compat to the dependencies, I've been encountering a bunch of problems. Older versions that didn't have compat entries are constantly being installed without me noticing, and leading to a bunch of headaches.

I'm wondering if it would be worth removing all current entries for these packages, and replacing them with new versions that start with the right compatibility entries (actually, I'm thinking of deprecating MicrobiomePlots entirely). This would solve a lot of my issues I think.

Potential problems

1. Anyone that has recent versions in any Manifests may end up with weird errors trying to instantiate them. I think there are unlikely to be many users (other than me) with these problems, but still worth mentioning
2. The julia General registry needs a PR to cap the dependencies of older versions there to prevent fallbacks there. I don't think this will be hard, and Fredrik said on slack this would likely be accepted.
3. ? anything else?

Alternative Approach

Could work on fixing the biojulia registry compat entries instead. I could be super simple and conservative (basically do the same thing as in General, but for julia 1.1+). I'm not sure if this actually improves anything re: existing Manifests, but it might be better.