# Julia Pro packages vs regular packages?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pro-packages-vs-regular-packages/17232
**Category:** Tooling
**Tags:** packages, juliapro
**Created:** [November 7, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pro-packages-vs-regular-packages/17232 "2018-11-07T00:07:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pro-packages-vs-regular-packages/17232/1 "2018-11-07T00:07:44Z")
Hello.
[https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2018/10/16/juliapro.html](https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2018/10/16/juliapro.html)
> The new JuliaPro releases (based on Julia 1.0) therefore do not bundle packages any more. The downloadable distributions contain only the compiler, the standard library, and the Juno IDE.
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> Even though the packages are not bundled, **JuliaPro users still benefit from a curated set of packages**. This is provided through the JuliaPro package registry hosted by Julia Computing.
How are those JuliaPro packages different from the regular packages?
I guess they are not linked against MKL because it’s not used.
So, what’s the difference?
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### Author:  [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pro-packages-vs-regular-packages/17232/2 "2018-11-07T00:38:25Z")
The JuliaPro packages are Julia packages that are **curated** by Julia Computing. A curated package is a package which has a level of assurance as to its usefulness and behaviour when used with the version of Julia that accompanies JuliaPro, and makes sense within a context provided by other curated packages, and a package for which Julia Computing has implied a certain attentiveness to issues that may arise.
> The JuliaPro registry contains a subset of packages from Julia’s General registry, but with an additional layer of testing and curation. The list of packages supported by the JuliaPro registry is displayed [on the JuliaPro product page](https://juliacomputing.com/products/juliapro.html#juliapackages).
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### Author:  [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pro-packages-vs-regular-packages/17232/3 "2018-11-07T00:52:10Z")
Then are they a modified/improved version? What improvements?
Or do they just pick the good ones?
Can you mix curated and not curated packages?
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### Author:  [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pro-packages-vs-regular-packages/17232/4 "2018-11-07T01:05:47Z")
Curated packages have a very high level of satisfaction associated with their use and they have had special attention given their testing, interpackage working, robustness. The curated packages are packages available from github repositories. A specific release may be used as the current curated version of a package, and while that may or may not be the latest release – it will be a release that exists as part of the public repository.
So, yes, mix and match as much as you like; just don’t expect the same level of assurance with other packages. That said, there exist other packages that are excellent, well-documented and extensively tested. However, if you are a company doing software development, and you plan to rely on packages that are not in Julia Computing’s curation, it may pay to contact them about a support arrangement.
(I am not associated with Julia Computing, so ultimately … this is informed opinion.)
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### Author:  [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pro-packages-vs-regular-packages/17232/5 "2023-09-12T16:41:35Z")