What is already easy is to install packages. What is not so easy yet is: to create a new user project to find, copy and execute examples to create custom system image I wrote three feature requests for package manager that would make these three steps easier. https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.j…

Ok, I think the suggestion from Kristoffer Carlsson to prototype these functions in a separate package is a good idea…

I kinda agree with the comments there and your conclusion. The functions do not do anything very complex (they take about 5~10 lines of code) and could either be implemented as a convenience by the users that feel the need to use it, or obtained by means of a package. The Pkg is for the building blo…

Well this one is already 30 lines of code… aenarete/KiteSimulators.jl/blob/main/bin/create_sys_image #!/bin/bash -eu update=true if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then if [[ $1 != "--update" ]]; then echo "Invalid parameter! Use:" echo "./create_sys_image" exit 1 fi…

I mean, it is not about the question if its only a few lines of code or not, it is about establishing a standard way to: create user projects to locate and copy examples to create system images To establish a well documented standard way of doing this is important for the user experience. For ach…

[image] ufechner7: create user projects Isn’t it Pkg.generate() ?

No, not at all. This generates a new package, but most new users do NOT want to write packages, just want to use a package or a set of packages, run some examples and then write there own code, which will never gets published. And if you teach bachelor students they will not even use git. So a user …

I thought that Pkg.activateing a directory that doesn’t exist implicitly created a new project?

Some of this functionality exists in the Julia for VSCode extension, which is one place to reach new users. For example, system image creation: https://www.julia-vscode.org/docs/stable/userguide/compilesysimage/ A Wizard.jl package that provided a high level interface over PackageCompiler.jl, PkgT…

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I am a happy user of the simple jeeves command line utility in Windows.

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