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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Julia missing from alpine v3.8
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 15:19:50 +0200

Hi ecsx

You're absolutely right, these things should be upstreamed and that is also=
 what keeps me from doing it. I don't know anything about julia. It is too =
scary for me:

* Their build-system is completely hand-written, so as a maintainer you hav=
e to find out everything you know about standard build-systems again
* Then almost every patch for 0.6.2 fails with 1.0.0 and most not because t=
he issues are fixed
* Too many tests fail

Complicated packages are quite common, julia isn't alone. But it requires a=
 lot of dedication to get it working and then get fixes upstreamed.

You are very welcome to give it a try. I would help you to get started with=
 alpine development. We can talk on IRC.

Best,
  Jean-Louis

On Sat, 8 Sep 2018, at 12:38, ecsx wrote:
> Hi Jean.
> What's non-standard about it?
> Could we propose a patch or at least report upstream?
> Thank you.
> All the best.
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> > Hi ecsx
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> > > It has a lot patches and seems rather fragile. I check if 1.0 less
> > > fragile, but no promises.
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> > It seems they added even more non-standard procedures to their build-sy=
stem. One can waste a lot of time on this apk. Since I don't use julia, I'm=
 out.
> >
> > Best,
> > Jean-Louis
> >
> >
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