Thanks Cedric and Tim. Tom (@tbreloff on github) had suggested status tags[0] for tagging packages on various criteria, or stages of development. He wrote a script which I merged, so it would be nice if various package authors submitted data for their package status. If this works, then perhaps we can find a way to create a REPL tool that will allow people to search and list packages based on the category, then install it if its 'Active' and 'Usable'? Not sure how practical this suggestion is with regard to unmaintained packages - ex. users can get annoyed if their search only throws up the 'unmaintained' tag for the packages.
[0] https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl/issues/55 /SVAKSHA should be completing the paper instead of reading list mail. On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Tim Holy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
