Surely we need to get rid of the current packages page: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/packages/packagelist/
It's still pretty high up google and people are surely going to it and coming away disappointed that a package doesn't exist when actually it does. It wasn't until I found this thread that I discovered that that list was actually depreciated. At the very least it should have a "DEPRECIATED, NEW LIST HERE" warning at the top? On Friday, 2 May 2014 04:32:06 UTC+1, Jacques Rioux wrote: > > Or may I suggest simply calling Pkg.available() in the Julia REPL > directly. > > You get the list right there for you.to browse and inspect. > > And it is always up to date. > On May 1, 2014 3:20 PM, "Iain Dunning" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> 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 ! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>
