I will have a chance to play with this over the weekend, and will be happy to share any positive results. I will also see if I can improve the documentation.
--Peter On Friday, September 12, 2014 3:27:13 AM UTC-7, Ivar Nesje wrote: > > I would not say that the documentation is wrong. It is just confusing and > fails to mention the optional arguments. As we have standardized on > ~/.julia, we should probably mention where we will end up creating files. > > If you think you got a grip of how the function works, you can suggest > improvements to the docs here > <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/edit/master/doc/stdlib/pkg.rst>. If > not you should open an issue on github about the confusion so that we can > add an appropriate milestone. > > Ivar > > kl. 23:07:40 UTC+2 torsdag 11. september 2014 skrev Peter Simon følgende: >> >> Ah! I had a look at the source code for `Pkg.init` and see that its >> default first argument is DEFAULT_META, which is initialized to "git:// >> github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl". So `Pkg.init` is used to point the >> package manager to the global METAFILE package directory. This is >> definitely not what I took away from the documentation, which reads: >> >> >> help?> Pkg.init >> Base.Pkg.init() >> >> Initialize "Pkg.dir()" as a package directory. This will be done >> automatically when the "JULIA_PKGDIR" is not set and >> "Pkg.dir()" uses its default value. >> >> >> >> This is the same as the online docs. Since the documentation talks about >> `Pkg.dir()` I thought it was for establishing the local package repository >> location. Looks like the documentation wrong/out of date? >> >> Thanks, >> --Peter >> >>
