By: Julia on EPH
Re-posted from: https://ericphanson.com/blog/2024/julias-package-registration-tooling/
Julia has a large ecosystem of over 10,000 registered packages in it’s “General” open-source package registry.
Package registration is mostly automated, but it can be hard to understand how all the various bits fit together. There are some helpful resources and tutorials on how to create and register a package, such as
and I won’t provide a step-by-step tutorial here. Instead, I aim to provide a point-in-time snapshot of many of the different pieces of tooling currently used in the Julia package registration system, and explain how they work together. I will also try to mention how they can be applied to alternative registries beyond General.