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The official registry of general Julia packages

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2020-08-03 · latest 2025-12-26

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  1. …most clients don't access it, and instead use the "Pkg Protocol" [2] which does not use Git. [1] https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General [2] https://pkgdocs.julialang.org/dev/protocol/
    comment by galenlynch · 2025-12-26 · in Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
  2. …one file and use it to download the rest as needed. I don't think this is a difficult problem. [1] https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General/blob/master/Regis...
    comment by ekjhgkejhgk · 2025-12-26 · in Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
  3. …piece that is truly Github based is the fact that the General registry lives in a Github repo ( https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General ), but could easily migrate to another git platform if it needed to.
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2023-01-30 · in Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?
  4. …[2]. Thank you all for helping me understand why IEX goes by IEX in all of their branding. [1] https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General/pull/27989 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEX
    comment by lukemerrick · 2022-08-31 · in Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock market data in Julia
  5. …|__/ | (@v1.6) pkg> add Plots Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General` Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git` Resolving package versions... Installed Qt_jll ─ v5.15.2+3 Downloaded artifact: Qt Updating…
    comment by dunefox · 2021-03-26 · in Julia 1.6 Highlights
  6. > (@v1.6) pkg> add Plots Installing known registries into `~\.julia` Cloning registry from " https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git " Fetching: [==> ] 3.4 % I gave up because it's just too slow (more than 15 min to get to 3%).…
    comment by siproprio · 2021-03-25 · in Julia 1.6 Highlights
  7. …Servers" that continually explore the global registry of packages (called `General`, located here: https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General ), downloading and storing tarballs for every version of every package that is available. These…
    comment by staticfloat · 2020-08-03 · in Julia 1.5 Highlights