first came npm, and then .....   jpm  : )

On Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 6:27:39 AM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:00 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
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>> Would you like it if someone came along and forked all of Julia, 
>> especially Pkg, and created forks of every package?   To do so would be 
>> entirely compliant with the MIT open source license.  So, it would be legal 
>> (not that license enforcement is common in the open source world). But, 
>> would it be DESIRABLE?  You've done a fine thing to rely largely on git and 
>> github.
>>
>
> This has happened: https://github.com/rened/DeclarativePackages.jl. And I 
> think it's great. There's a lot that Pkg doesn't do well currently and 
> René's fork does many things better. I'm planning on bringing a lot of 
> these ideas back into Julia's package manager in the future (I hope he 
> doesn't mind my larceny).
>

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