Digging into Julia's package system

Posted Oct 14, 2021 12:32 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Digging into Julia's package system by azumanga
Parent article: Digging into Julia's package system

> 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.

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,
Wol

Digging into Julia's package system

Posted Oct 17, 2021 7:26 UTC (Sun) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

crates.io packages are stored in S3 and cached locally. S3 isn't really going to go down for technical reasons. Hopefully someone has a copy of the archive in case those S3 resources get deleted.