I think that's what we should do.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:04 PM, John Myles White <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It would be really easy to run a GitHub page that is literally a list of
> URL’s for unofficial packages and which receives edits via GitHub pull
> requests.
>
>  — John
>
>
> On Dec 22, 2014, at 12:03 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> To me the main benefit of having a list of non-packages would be that we
> could have code their without having to go through the whole name
> bikeshedding process that is traditional for registered Julia packages (and
> which I think is very important, if imperfect).
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Tomas Lycken <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I have always regarded the version tagging system as an indicator of
>> package "ready-state", and not only as "progress since the package was
>> concieved/first released". For example, I've registered the
>> Interpolations.jl package in Metadata, but I haven't tagged a version, so
>> if I do Pkg.status() it shows as version `0.0.0-` - to me, that works as an
>> indicator that this package isn't as ready as a package with a version of,
>> say, 1.2.5, or even 0.3.1.
>>
>> It would probably be quite simple to add a filtering feature for package
>> versions on pkg.julialang.org - nothing too specific, of course, but one
>> could for example choose to include all packages, just packages with a
>> tagged version, or even just packages version 1.0 or later. That would be a
>> simple answer to most of the questions you raise, albeit maybe not as
>> specific as you might want. However, it would have the benefit of curating
>> itself.
>>
>> // T
>>
>>
>> On Monday, December 22, 2014 5:23:43 PM UTC+1, Hans W Borchers wrote:
>>>
>>> There's a list (of such lists) at http://svaksha.github.io/Julia.jl/ .
>>> But you are right: something more complete and more up-to-date would be
>>> nice.
>>> I started an overview of Math packages with usage examples, but stopped
>>> when the Julia 0.4 version came about.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 22, 2014 4:59:24 PM UTC+1, [email protected]
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does it make sense to have a list of unregistered packages ?  I'd like
>>>> to make my packages visible, for feedback or whatever, and also to see what
>>>> other packages are out there.
>>>>
>>>> Putting a new package that no one has used in the same list as a
>>>> heavily used/developed package doesn't seem right.
>>>> My packages have interfaces that are too big, and need to be
>>>> pruned/altered after people use them. Still, it would be nice
>>>> to be able to install them easily, so maybe a separate metadata repo,
>>>> or a tag 'experimental' would work. (It would not make sense to register
>>>> them in another list and then still call them 'unregistered')  I guess
>>>> Julia will have to deal with something like this sooner or later.
>>>>
>>>> github says there are about 2000 Julia repos. Surely not all are meant
>>>> to be packages. I have a Swap.jl repo on github just so I can install it
>>>> easily myself.  But I wonder how many of the 2000 are useable packages?
>>>>
>>>> This must have been discussed already somewhere, but I can't find it.
>>>>
>>>>
>
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