As someone who remembers the days of the first packages, I also want to throw out the fact that the title of this issue should probably be viewed as a triumph :-).
--Tim On Sunday, July 12, 2015 10:59:10 AM Viral Shah wrote: > It is worth differentiating what core Julia - the language and its standard > library - includes as a default, and what different distributions of Julia > may include to provide a good user experience. I personally have been > wanting to make a distribution that includes a few key packages that I like > and plotting for a while! I think with 0.4, we will be able to start doing > this. > > -viral > > On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 7:43:28 PM UTC+5:30, yu...@altern.org wrote: > > I think there's a big differences between developing core features in > > packages and shipping them with the default version and having optional > > third party packages implementing core features. > > > > Personally I also find the huge amount of packages to be slightly > > annoying, but it's also clear the Julia team cannot do everything like > > Matlab would. The only thing I really would like to have > > included by default it plotting tools, because they are so essential for a > > lot of things.
