I see. Well, I guess in that case the list at https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl is probably the way to go.
I think you are pointing out a more general "discoverability" problem though, which we still haven't tackled (some sort of tagging system has been thrown around before). On Thursday, May 1, 2014 2:57:42 PM UTC-4, Hans W Borchers wrote: > > Sorry for taking so much of your time. > > I mean a simple and easily scrollable list of packages such as is > available in the left frame of page > http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.2/packages/packagelist/ . Many > package names give a good hint to what they are doing, thus finding things > I would not have expected (and therefore could not search for). > > Without that list I could not have generated the list of Julia packages > for numerical math that I posted in the thread "All packages for numerical > math" on April 25. I could not have done this with, e.g., > http://iainnz.github.io/packages.julialang.org/ . > > > > On Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:36:13 PM UTC+2, Iain Dunning wrote: >> >> There are over 300 packages so it I'm not really sure how a table of >> contents would help - could you describe what you'd want one for? The >> easiest way to find a package is to start typing its name. >> >> On Thursday, May 1, 2014 2:09:42 PM UTC-4, Hans W Borchers wrote: >>> >>> This list is difficult to scroll (because of using large fonts, >>> probably). >>> I am still missing a "table of contents" like on the package list for >>> version 0.2.0 ! >>> >>> >>>
