Our METADATA design allows us to have, for example, a curated METADATA - much like Debian’s stable, testing, etc. Packages meeting certain criteria are the only ones that could go into the curated METADATA.
-viral > On 29-Jan-2015, at 5:52 pm, Steven Sagaert <steven.saga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A growing ecosystem is great but let's not fall into the trap of "bigger is > better". CPAN (& CRAN which is modeled after it) is/was huge but that hasn't > prevented the long decline of Perl. Sometimes "less is more", meaning: I'd > rather have a smaller number of high quality larger packages/frameworks with > little overlap between them rather than a "zoo" like CRAN. So far this seems > to be working out quite well for julia but that may be because it's still > very early. Once the user base grows will the packages stay so focussed or > will we see more duplication/overlap? Let's hope for the first. > > On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 4:32:45 PM UTC+1, Iain Dunning wrote: > Just noticed on http://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html that we are at 499 > registered packages with at least one version tagged that are Julia 0.4-dev > compatible (493 on Julia 0.3). > > Thanks to all the package developers for their efforts in growing the Julia > package ecosystem! >
