El viernes, 3 de junio de 2016, 16:40:50 (UTC-4), Adrian Salceanu escribió: > > Hi, > > I have released PkgSearch, a small REPL utility for package discovery. > > Very nice work!
> Package discovery seemed to be a recurring issue, with many related > questions - and I can still remember how difficult was for me too, when I > started. So it might be a useful tool. > I've been using it for a few days and it's kind of neat, being able to > quickly search through all the publicly available packages without leaving > the REPL :) I hope you'll enjoy it! > > It works in conjunction with an API which powers the actual search. On the > server side, a full text search is performed against the README files. It > covers both official packages and unofficial ones, searching for them on > GitHub (not in real time, the data is imported regularly). This GitHub > search is a bit naive still, so false positives might come up. > > More details in the README, at https://github.com/essenciary/PkgSearch > > === > > On a related note, the API providing the search results and all the > tooling for importing and processing the data is done with Genie (formerly > Jinnie) - the Julia web framework I've been working on for many months now. > It's not ready for prime time yet but this is definitely a major milestone! > > With this occasion I've also added a very comprehensive README to give you > an idea about what it does, how it works and where it's heading. > > You can find it here https://github.com/essenciary/genie - and if you > like it, please star it :) > > Cheers, > Adrian >
