I've been using NixOS the past month to try and gain some perspective on this problem. Their approach is very good, and I recommend reading the white papers and source notes. On Dec 20, 2015 10:05 AM, "Tom Breloff" <t...@breloff.com> wrote:
> My reaction is the same as Tim Holy's. While I agree there are aspects of > Julia's modules which are not perfect, it's not clear at all how your > package changes the workflow. In fact, I don't understand anything about > your package. Could you please try to write up the design thoughts behind > what you are doing, so that we can understand the high level concepts that > you are attempting? > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:24 AM, Tim Holy <tim.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> After reading your README example, I'm still left wondering how one works >> with >> Kip, or how it fixes the problems you're describing. To me it's not at all >> obvious how your example "illustrates" the statements you make in the >> prose. >> You might consider explaining the meaning of the various arguments to >> @require, what an "index" file is and what its format should be, and >> exactly >> what the call to the emit function is supposed to demonstrate. >> >> Best, >> --Tim >> >> On Saturday, December 19, 2015 11:26:53 PM Jake Rosoman wrote: >> > I forgot to actually link to the project < >> https://github.com/jkroso/Kip.jl> >> > >> > On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 8:25:04 PM UTC+13, Jake Rosoman wrote: >> > > Julia's module system is the one part of it I feel confident enough >> to say >> > > is bad. It can't handle several versions of the same package. Is hard >> (or >> > > impossible?) to depend on packages that aren't in the registry and >> hard to >> > > add (controversial) things to the registry. I also find it ugly and >> hard >> > > to >> > > use but now I'm getting into opinions so I'll stop. >> > > >> > > Kip solves all these problems and works fine alongside Julia's current >> > > module system so you can try it out now. I hope that eventually we can >> > > replace Julia's module system if people generally agree that it's >> worth >> > > doing. I've created a poll to measure the communities opinion >> > > <http://tally.tl/3002Y> and you can change your vote at any time so >> feel >> > > free to say no now but follow the discussion. >> >> >
