Thanks for the hint to this very helpful list of (mostly) not-metadated packages. I started a list of Numerical Math packages for Julia myself, because I did not find categorized or compiled information like here. Only I am missing more information on optimization and simulation packages out there.
I think it is not so much a question of whether a package has enough quality to be listed as a registered package. There will be package developments going on for one or two years before they will appear on the 'official' list, but I would still like to know about them. For example, I learned only from John Miles White's report on JuliaCon about the CVX.jl package, though I had made a request about "convex programming" on the julia-opt list some weeks ago. There is a useful BlackBoxOptim.jl package for global optimization that has made it neither on the METADATA list nor on JuliaOpt page. I don't know the reason, but the author seemed highly interested to see it there. Maybe, on the list of registered packages there should only appear "recommended packages" (in the sense R adds them to the base installation). And yes, information about other available packages needs to be improved -- but perhaps this is more the task of the community, not of the core developers, in the form of blogs or more pages like Svaksha's. On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 4:51:03 AM UTC+2, Isaiah wrote: > > On the discoverability side, svaksha's curated collection really deserves > more attention - it is categorized and provides short summaries of code > ranging from listed packages to useful fragments that never showed up on > the mailing lists. > > http://svaksha.github.io/Julia.jl/ > >
