Base.ACTIVE_PROJECT is not intialized correctly in windows systems.

[RefatIsmail96]

I’ve encountered an issue with the initialization of the Base.ACTIVE_PROJECT variable in Julia on windows system. Specifically, the unsafe_string(Base.JLOptions().project) call in the Base.init_active_project function generates a load path with lowercase directory paths (e.g., c:\Users\...) for the active project. However, this causes a mismatch when compared to other paths (generated elsewhere) which are capitalized (e.g., C:\Users\...).

Windows is case-insensitive, but having a standardized way of representing path would avoid this mismatch. I encountered the issue while using CondaPkg.jl.

[KristofferC]

How is the active project set? With an environment variable or with a command line flag or with Pkgs activate?

[vtjnash]

The standardized way is to call samefile. While uppercase drive is probably more canonical, it is fairly difficult to ensure that paths are fully "canonicalized" with all of the places they come from and can be altered by