Digging into Julia's package system
Digging into Julia's package system
Posted Oct 14, 2021 11:14 UTC (Thu) by azumanga (subscriber, #90158)In reply to: Digging into Julia's package system by leephillips
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Saying every package which has some dependency could "switch to a new version" doesn't feel helpful, you could do that in npm too if you like. I'm not really clear why it would be easier for Julia than it would be for Javascript.
I'm surprised Julia didn't do what Rust did -- there packages in the "package repository" are stored centrally, and unless there is a very serious issue released packages can never be removed. You can disable versions (by 'yanking' them), but users can still get those versions by specifying exact version number.
Posted Oct 14, 2021 12:32 UTC (Thu)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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What do you mean by "centrally". If you mean "on the net somewhere", what happens if that (for various meanings of "that") go down?
Or is that repository mirrored (should you so choose) on your machine, so you can ALWAYS re-install that package if you need? iiuc gentoo downloads everything, and while I've deliberately configured my system to forget it, I think it's easy enough to change that so it keeps it ...
Cheers,
Posted Oct 17, 2021 7:26 UTC (Sun)
by roc (subscriber, #30627)
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Posted Oct 14, 2021 12:56 UTC (Thu)
by leephillips (subscriber, #100450)
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Digging into Julia's package system
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Digging into Julia's package system
Digging into Julia's package system