There's a fair amount of discussion of the Rust Platform proposal over here:
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/proposal-the-rust-platform/3745 In short there's a lack of agreement to this in Rust. Moreover, in Rust, different versions of libraries are much more closely locked to each other, whereas in Julia the coupling is much looser. Steven, since you're in favor of this idea, can you explain why you think it's a good idea for Julia? What problems does it solve? On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > The vision I personally have for this would be something more like SUSE > Studio (https://susestudio.com/) where it's just a few clicks, or a > configuration file in the build system, that could give you a set of > default-installed packages of your choosing, and make installers for your > own custom "spins" of a Julia-with-packages distribution. > > > > On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 2:08:06 AM UTC-7, Tim Holy wrote: >> >> module MyMetaPackage >> >> using Reexport >> >> @reexport using PackageA >> @reexport using PackageB >> ... >> >> end >> >> Best. >> --Tim >> >> On Monday, August 1, 2016 1:48:47 AM CDT Steven Sagaert wrote: >> > is more than just a webpage with a list of packages... for starters the >> > concept of metapackage. >> > >> > On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 10:25:33 AM UTC+2, Tamas Papp wrote: >> > > Maybe you already know about it, but there is a curated list of >> packages >> > > at https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl >> > > >> > > On Mon, Aug 01 2016, Steven Sagaert wrote: >> > > > see https://aturon.github.io/blog/2016/07/27/rust-platform/ >> >> >>
