It is gone from the git repository (#7204 <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/7204>), but it seems like readthedocs still keeps a cached version around. The link is probably still in lots of places, so it we should probably leave a `packagelist.rst` file around with a link to the correct site.
Ivar kl. 14:02:40 UTC+2 onsdag 2. juli 2014 skrev Samuel Colvin følgende: > > Surely we need to get rid of the current packages page: > http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/packages/packagelist/ > > It's still pretty high up google and people are surely going to it and > coming away disappointed that a package doesn't exist when actually it does. > > It wasn't until I found this thread that I discovered that that list was > actually depreciated. > > At the very least it should have a "DEPRECIATED, NEW LIST HERE" warning at > the top? > > On Friday, 2 May 2014 04:32:06 UTC+1, Jacques Rioux wrote: >> >> 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" <iaind...@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 ! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>
