[Pkg-julia-devel] Welcome to the Debian Julia Team!

[Elliot Saba]

If I may ask, why is it desireable to have the debian team package julia
packages?  Most of my "packaging experience" comes from the Homebrew
project, where they explicitly don't package things that are available in
their own package manager (Python's pip, Perl's CPAN, etc....).
-E


On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org>wrote:

> Viral Shah <viral at mayin.org> writes:
>
> > In December, we expect to have a 0.1 release, and we can start
> > following the releases from there on.
>
> This is great. I think our initial goal should therefore be to ship a
> good 0.1 package in Ubuntu Raring. The Debian Import Freeze will happen
> on Feb. 14, 2013 according to [1], so we have some time.
>
> Also, we need to start thinking about how we will create Debian packages
> for the new Julia packages. Even though Julia has its own package
> manager, Debian should offer the possibility to download Julia packages
> (at least the most useful of them) through the Debian package manager
> (the same way that Debian distributes packages for Python, Ruby, R or
> Octave despite the fact that all these languages have their own package
> manager). To achieve this, we need a system-wide location for Julia
> packages (e.g. /usr/share/julia/packages for the arch-independent parts,
> and /usr/lib/<arch>/julia/packages for arch-dependent parts if any).
> Currently AFAIK the Julia package system only supports the per-user
> location in ~/.julia. We need support for both a system-wide location
> and a per-user location, so that users can use both system-provided and
> user-installed packages at the same time. Of course, from the point of
> view of the user, the system-wide location is read-only, and this has to
> be kept in mind in the implementation.
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseSchedule
>
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