On Sep 20 16:49, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've just packaged the Julia language for technical computing for
> Fedora, and I thought it would be very useful to add it to EPEL7, since
> a large share of the user base is in academia, on RHEL, CentOS or
> Scientific Linux machines.
>
> But Julia is still unstable, and evolving at a rapid pace. Though
> compatibility is preserved as much as possible, a few breaking changes
> are introduced in each major version, about twice a year. On the other
> hand, until 1.0 is reached, it does not make sense to keep a beta
> version of Julia and maintain it for years: it will soon become
> completely useless and even misleading for users.
>
> So I wonder whether it makes sense to package it for EPEL7, or whether
> I'd better wait for 1.0 to be out (which may take a couple of years). Or
> can I keep a package in the testing repo until that point?
>
> Thanks for your help
> _______________________________________________
> epel-devel mailing list
> epel-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
One option would be to maintain a COPR
(
http://copr.fedoraproject.org/) until it stabilizes. The EPEL
team is working on proposals for separate repositories that allow faster
moving package updates but nothing has been finalized yet.
Actually, that's
what I'm doing at the moment [1]. That's certainly a
good way of providing software to interested users.
I'll wait for the new repositories to be created before pushing Julia to
EPEL7 then.
Regards
1: