That seems to be a solution. However, packages are updating from time to time. Actually, I am hoping to use something like "pypi" for Python which updates every few minutes. It is a good idea to group these package into package groups(toolbox) so that those people who want certain functions can get that group ready very easily. It is also wise to have more useful packages bundled as a release. (I don't know whether it will reduce the speed of runtime.)
Yi On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:41 PM, John Myles White <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you looking to do a mass download of packages in a single compressed > file? > > -- John > > > On Jun 4, 2014, at 8:36 PM, yi lu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > It seems there are a lot of packages out there, and most package are > hosted on github. The only way I know to install a package is Pkg.add("some > package"). So it seems inconvenient to use a package, say PyPlot, because I > have to download and install it first every new package uninstalled. What I > can witness are two options, one is a package manager fetch package from > one "mirror", and the other is a full release which contains the potential > stable packages out there just like MATLAB. > > > > Yi >
