Invenia is pleased to announce PkgTemplates.jl , a customizable and extensible package for generating Julia packages. As of this post it is awaiting METADATA registration. Current available plugins: Travis Appveyor CodeCov Coveralls Documenter, with and without deploying to GitHub Pages It also s…

There is also ANN: PackageGenerator.jl , how does it compare?

… this looks like it largely duplicates what I have done, except that it’s more flexible. I took the approach of prescribing what “should” be in packages for the sake of beginners. However, I would have been open to collaboration if people wanted more flexible options…

@iamed2 if you haven’t already it might be worth looking through PackageGenerator to see if there’s additional functionality not in PkgTemplates. After that’s done, it probably makes sense for me to edit the README of PackageGenerator to send users to PkgTemplates and then stop maintaining it …

Actually I don’t see anything in here about API calls at all. @iamed2 it might be worth me eliminating the non-API functionality of PackageGenerator. Then PkgTemplates could REQUIRE (or just subsume) it if it’s functionality you’d be interested in.

Package author here, questions/comments can be directed to me :slightly_smiling_face:. I’m open to suggestions and criticism as this is my first real Julia project. To address what’s been asked: @mauro3 One big difference between PkgTemplates and packages like PkgDev/PkgGenerator is customizabilit…

Yup. Also links them up to each other so that travis can push Documenter builds to github pages.

I can also mention that we at Invenia have our own plugins for our private infrastructure which makes setting up private or public repos just the change of a template variable (stored in our .juliarc.jl). Much easier for novices than a different of instructions for each!

PkgTemplates already takes care of the second bit, but yes manually adding the repos to Travis/AppVeyor/etc is annoying.

Out of curiousity, how? PackageGenerator runs ssh-keygen then adds repository keys to both travis and github.

ANN: PkgTemplates.jl, for pluggable and interactive package generation

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mauro3 August 24, 2017, 8:28pm 5

Maybe another case of: How does one find a julia package for a specific use?

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