I like to keep up to date about new Julia packages being registered and new releases of existing ones. I used to just “watch” the Github repo for the registry, but it contains a lot of incidental information and these days it is like drinking from a firehose. I of course also follow the announcemen…

How about watching only releases? That can be selected from the watch drop down

I think you are confusing Julia package releases (which are changes to that repository) with what Github considers a release (of which there aren’t any for this repo).

U mean u watch the general registry? Thought u meant the individual repositories. For me, tag bot tags each release

I am not quite sure you read the original question. Of course I am aware of that feature of Github, and I use it to watch some packages; but this does not work for learning about new packages.

I guess https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/Registrator.jl should be the entry point but I have almost no experience with GitHub bots whatsoever, so not sure if there is a way to inject some hooks. But ultimately that’s the place where the actual “release” happens I guess…

You mean something like this CRANberries R, CRAN, package

Yes, that’s a perfect solution — an RSS feed allows catching up with this information on demand.

He explains how he does it here . It seems like the equivalent in Julia would be periodically updating a local registry to match the general registry and just automating some readout of the the git history.

What could be nice too for versions is that when you type status in an environment pkg tells you if there are any new versions available (you may not want to up for compatibility reasons but it’d be nice to have the info) Maybe especially so now that auto merging on the registry requires upper boun…

you can fake this with: pkg> preview up which will do a dry run of updating but no change anything.

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Zach_Christensen October 19, 2019, 7:59am 7

You mean something like this

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Post list of all registered packages Community question	19	3448	April 2, 2019
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Outdated page in Julia Package Ecosystem Pulse General Usage	4	1447	November 11, 2017
New automerge requirement: Release notes required for breaking package releases Package Announcements general-registry , registryci	50	1873	January 2, 2025

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