juliaup

[schlichtanders]

Project description
Juliaup is the new installer and version multiplexer for the Julia runtime. In a few weeks it is going to be the default installer for the Julia language, as just announced on the JuliaConference last week.

It would be great to have it available in nixpkgs.

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup
• source URL: https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup
• license: mit
• platforms: unix, linux, darwin, ...

[edmundmiller]

I just watched the Juliacon talk on this. It might be similar to the way rustup is packaged?

[iFreilicht]

Ah this is interesting. I started working on a PR that uses BinaryBuilder (#211162) for packaging julia in nix because building it against system dependencies is so error-prone. I assume this means new versions don't use BinaryBuilder anymore?

[schlichtanders]

BinaryBuilder is Julia's way to package non-julia dependencies in a architecture agnostic way.

juliaup is the main way to install julia nowadays. Hence this is unrelated to BinaryBuilder.

[Moelf]

Indeed this is basically rustup but for Julia, it would be nice to have