On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 5:04 PM Ian McInerney via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> > Fabio Valentini venit, vidit, dixit 2024-06-14 16:25:56:
> >
> > Julia comes from a mindset or background where reproducibility is
> > important. Think of data science where you distribute both analysis and
> > code and want your code to always support your analysis ;-)
> >
> > Now, one thing is enabling that (via explicit requirements, bundling,
> > containerizing and such), another thing is basically inhibiting
> > unbundling.
> >
> > Julia users might be best served by not packaging Julia as rpm any more.
> > This implies not packaging it as Fedora flatpak either.
> >
> > I would not phrase this as "Fedora does not support Julia", though.
> > Rather, "Julia does not support distribution packaging" but also "Fedora
> > supports containerized workflows" such as those preferred by and
> > supported by Julia. In fact, Fedora/RHEL are *the* base for
> > containerized workflows, of course!
>
> The better way to use Julia is through juliaup 
> (https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup), which will install it from versions 
> compiled by the upstream project and hosted on their infrastructure - and 
> also allow for installation of multiple versions side-by-side (since there 
> are both long-term support versions like 1.6 and the current stable version). 
> I had a look at packaging it before, but never followed up on that yet, just 
> due to not having enough time yet. (I think it should just need to be a 
> rust2rpm package, with one or two extra dependencies that need packaging).

Oh, I didn't expect this to be written in Rust.

If that is indeed a better way to manage local Julia installations,
then I can look into packaging it and / or putting it on the Rust
package wishlist.

Fabio
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