I echo Tom Breloff's sentiment that Pkg.add() should simply be expanded to allow various repos of repos in a kwarg argument. This is an open issue here <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/11914>.
The default repo of repos would be METADATA or maybe it's possible new name of CuratedPackages, and third parties would be welcome to add their own repo of repos which I'm sure could be coded into the method (i.e., JewelBox would map to https://github.com/JuliaJulia/JewelBox.jl) or alternatively the url can be provided as a string. On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 2:57:14 PM UTC-4, Jacob Quinn wrote: > > Note there's also an open issue for requiring a higher overall standard > for officially registered packages in the JuliaLang/METADATA.jl package > repository. It's a big issue with a lot of work required to get to the > proposal, but it would lead to (hopefully) instilling more confidence in > users knowing that anything they add through `Pkg.add()` would meet some > acceptable level of quality and robustness. > > -Jacob > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Christoph Ortner <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I seem to be in the minority "too many packages" camp. I would prefer >> stable updates of julia version which means that key functionality should >> be included in core, e.g. BLAS, sparse solvers, eig, eigs, basic plotting >> and so on and so forth. But at some point there was an idea of having core >> and Stdlib, which I think is equally acceptable. >> Christoph > > >
