The use case for this question is when one must submit a FOSS review ticket to your IT organization. One essential field is the URL that Pkg uses to download the package. The organization then downloads the source code and scans it for malware, licenses, etc. It’s possible to search the internet m…

Is there a way to ask Pkg for a package's download URL?

PeterSimon January 9, 2023, 4:32pm 2

julia> using PkgOnlineHelp

julia> site = pkg_site("DifferentialEquations", autoopen=false)
"https://github.com/SciML/DifferentialEquations.jl.git"

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