I sometimes find https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl can be useful. It's a hard problem to keep all this organized, though, so more searchable tools might be a good idea. I'm not aware of any efforts to provide this, so it seems like an area ripe for an impactful contribution!
--Tim On Monday, March 28, 2016 12:54:43 AM hustf wrote: > Skimming pkg.julialang.org is pleasantly impossible with 904 registered > packages. This smells exponential growth. > > Is there a tool to simply download the text files in all of the packages? > Last time I checked, I wasn't able to do that with github commands. > > I think it would be impossible to foresee which information might be > relevant while keeping the tool you're requesting fast and lightweight. The > text files already contain all the info, and we can easily extract data > like dependencies from them. So I inelegantly maintain a ghost folder > structure with text files from packages I've tried out so far.
