Or may I suggest simply calling Pkg.available() in the Julia REPL directly.
You get the list right there for you.to browse and inspect. And it is always up to date. On May 1, 2014 3:20 PM, "Iain Dunning" <iaindunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see. Well, I guess in that case the list at > https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl is probably the way to go. > > I think you are pointing out a more general "discoverability" problem > though, which we still haven't tackled (some sort of tagging system has > been thrown around before). > > On Thursday, May 1, 2014 2:57:42 PM UTC-4, Hans W Borchers wrote: >> >> Sorry for taking so much of your time. >> >> I mean a simple and easily scrollable list of packages such as is >> available in the left frame of page http://docs.julialang.org/en/ >> release-0.2/packages/packagelist/ . Many package names give a good hint >> to what they are doing, thus finding things I would not have expected (and >> therefore could not search for). >> >> Without that list I could not have generated the list of Julia packages >> for numerical math that I posted in the thread "All packages for numerical >> math" on April 25. I could not have done this with, e.g., >> http://iainnz.github.io/packages.julialang.org/ . >> >> >> >> On Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:36:13 PM UTC+2, Iain Dunning wrote: >>> >>> There are over 300 packages so it I'm not really sure how a table of >>> contents would help - could you describe what you'd want one for? The >>> easiest way to find a package is to start typing its name. >>> >>> On Thursday, May 1, 2014 2:09:42 PM UTC-4, Hans W Borchers wrote: >>>> >>>> This list is difficult to scroll (because of using large fonts, >>>> probably). >>>> I am still missing a "table of contents" like on the package list for >>>> version 0.2.0 ! >>>> >>>> >>>>
