Get url of package

General Usage
1

I have the name of a registered package and I want to get its url. Currently I use the following hack:

function url(pkg)
    path = joinpath(Pkg.dir(), "METADATA", pkg, "url")
    strip(readstring(path))
end

is there a better way?

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What is the issue with this solution? I used the same code to retrieve the URL: https://github.com/JuliaGraphs/JuliaGraphsTutorials/blob/master/DAG-Julia-Pkgs.ipynb

and plot data for all registered packages:

3

Pkg.Read.url does pretty much exactly that

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4

My function

  • felt like something that is probably already implemented somewhere
  • uses implementation details of the package manager
5

I think Pkg.Read.url does not exist in Julia v1.6…

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That is a correct observation. This question and answer is almost four years old and were given for an obsolete major version of Julia, probably 0.5, and the package manager was completely rewritten for Julia 1.0.

If you have a question it is better to start a new post rather than reviving a years old thread.

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