Personally, I would not want them all. I would find it useful to start with the most commonly used ones, even if the commonly used list contains a few more than I really want & need, as long as not too many.
Then, I would further want to easily be able to define, install and then later update my personal list of other packages of interest in line with my stable version of core Julia. I know how to define, install & update a list of packages. However, it is not clear to me if & how the package manager updates the package code at the proper branch/version corresponding to the stable version of Julia I run. On Thursday, June 5, 2014 1:41:07 AM UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: > > Are you looking to do a mass download of packages in a single compressed > file? > > -- John > > > On Jun 4, 2014, at 8:36 PM, yi lu <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > It seems there are a lot of packages out there, and most package are > hosted on github. The only way I know to install a package is Pkg.add("some > package"). So it seems inconvenient to use a package, say PyPlot, because I > have to download and install it first every new package uninstalled. What I > can witness are two options, one is a package manager fetch package from > one "mirror", and the other is a full release which contains the potential > stable packages out there just like MATLAB. > > > > Yi >
