I am kind of new to the open source world of Github, and I have a few questions about launching Julia modules. I noticed almost all modules have a certain file organisation, e.g. src, docs, examples and test folders. Is there any assumption Pkg makes about the file structure when cloning it from …

[image] mohamed82008: I am kind of new to the open source world of Github, and I have a few questions about launching Julia modules. Welcome! In addition to the documentation that @yuyichao linked above, I’d suggest playing around with the Pkg module. You can directly read the in-line docs …

[image] mohamed82008: I noticed almost all modules have a certain file organisation, e.g. src, docs, examples and test folders. Is there any assumption Pkg makes about the file structure when cloning it from Github, or when testing it? And how do the using and import commands deal with such a st…

@ChrisRackauckas also made a video tutorial about some of these things recently: [Developing and Editing Julia Packages]

@jballanc Thanks alot for your explanation.

Looks great, I will check it out. Thanks @jonathanBieler and @ChrisRackauckas .

I just thought of clarifying something. The reason I did not really google some of these is because I thought they had more to do with Julia than with Github, especially the files. And when I went over the documentation, I missed the part of packages. So admittedly I am at fault here but mostly unin…

May I also ask the owner of the question to flag some answer as being the answer to the question? I think @jballanc has compiled together a nice response. That should be selected as the correct answer, if @mohamed82008 does agree. Then, some other person would simply find the answer even among the …

Here’s a suggested resolution to the discussion here. @mohamed82008 's question are typical of particularly non-programming-professionals coming to the julia package ecosystem. They can mostly be googled, most people do that, and it seems to be recognized as a convention that people should do this. …

I think the post by @jballanc and the video by @ChrisRackauckas do a great job at explaining most of my concerns regarding Julia and Github, so I don’t think there is much that needs to be added to what they said. And yes I vote up for including the answers to these questions in one place in the doc…

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