[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia package system [was: Welcome to the Debian Julia Team!]

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le dimanche 25 novembre 2012 à 20:09 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> Elliot Saba <staticfloat at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 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....).
> 
> On Debian it's the contrary: you get all the components of the operating
> system and large parts of Python's PIP, Perl's CPAN, R's CPAN, Octave
> Forge,… through the package manager.
> 
> I can give the following reasons for doing the same for Julia packages:

[...]

I opened an issue on that topic:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1692

Don't hesitate to add your comments if you think I am mistaken/forgot
something.

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