[Pkg-julia-devel] Dependency on git

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 à 17:51 +0530, Viral Shah a écrit :

> > By the way, I am making progress towards creating Debian packages for
> > the most important Julia packages (like those for graphics). I hope to
> > make uploads soon.
> 
> I believe that many people will have mixed feelings about this

I don't understand why people would see this as a problem. My impression
is that this is just prejudice coming from people who are using OSes
without a decent package manager.

I have explained in issue #1692 the reasons for which I think this move
is a good one. And I did not see any decent argument for not doing so.

I would be very disappointed if this effort was considered in a negative
way by the Julia community. Hopefully some users have expressed their
positive feelings about this.

Also note that these would be separate Debian packages, and therefore
their installation would remain optional.

>  and we need to make it possible to override the debian packaged version with the latest version available through Pkg, if the user has installed it. I personally think this is a good thing.

I agree that this is necessary, since the Julia package manager is not
able to cooperate with APT.

I thinks this boils down to whether ~/.julia is
before /usr/share/julia/site/ in LOAD_PATH. Is this indeed the case?

> Are you planning to package ijulia too?

Yes, but unfortunately this is not possible at the moment, since the
version of ipython in Debian is too old. I will see how this can be
fixed.

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