ygg ygg is a simple installer for using BinaryBuilder.jl built binaries from Yggdrasil outside of Julia. Installing ygg is simple (see the README ), and then installing binaries is even simpler. Here is an example of adding the fzf fuzzy finder: $ ygg install fzf The list of binaries that is curren…

[image] fredrikekre: For example, my system package manager gives me git version 2.7, but from Yggdrasil you get version 2.27. For anyone else that misread this at first: x.27 is a newer version than x.7. It’s not x.2.7 after all (note the extra dot).

Excellent! I think of this like a Linux distro or Homebrew but portable to Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD, instead of being only for one of those kinds of systems. Conda is a little like this but they use different compilers for different architectures, so the results are less comparable across s…

Awesome! I for one, look forward to a linux distro that uses this as its package manager. :smiley: Does this assume that the user has Julia installed already? If so, we should perhaps make that explicit. If Julia is not required to be installed to use this, then perhaps there’s a way we can use thi…

[image] Mason: Does this assume that the user has Julia installed already? Yes, it creates shims that are just small Julia scripts, so it does require a Julia install.

[image] Mason: Does this assume that the user has Julia installed already? Yea, I will add that to the README. [image] simeonschaub: Yes, it creates shims that are just small Julia scripts, so it does require a Julia install. The shims themselves are just bash scripts.

[image] fredrikekre: The shims themselves are just bash scripts. Oops, sorry, I misread that. The bash script just ends up running the Julia script though, right?

No, they just invoke the binary directly: $ cat fzf #!/bin/bash exec env LD_LIBRARY_PATH="..." PATH="..." fzf "$@"

Oh, I did not realize that. That’s super cool! At the risk of embarassing myself further, I did understand correctly though that to generate these, it installs the JLL and then extracts the path and environment from there? Does ygg actually ensure that artifacts are not accidentally cleaned up when…

[image] simeonschaub: to generate these, it installs the JLL and then extracts the path and environment from there? Yea correct. [image] simeonschaub: Does ygg actually ensure that artifacts are not accidentally cleaned up when running Pkg.gc() ? Kinda, since Pkg does not GC artifacts…

instead of building packages from source, binaries are prebuilt for each target platform and can simply be downloaded, unpacked, put in the right place and used without compilation. FWIW that’s true in Nix too. The Nixpkgs cache has terabytes of built packages for various platforms . Yggdrasil a…

Announcing ygg

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Announcing ygg

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