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

[Elliot Saba]

Everything looks good to me, Sébastien.  I don't have a strong opinion on
this topic, so I think it'll be better to wait for Stefan, Jeff, and Viral
to chip in with their arguments before I try and contribute anything to the
discussion.
-E


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org>wrote:

> 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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