Julia Package Development Kit (PDK)

PkgDev.jl provides a set of tools for a developer to create, maintain and register packages in Julia package repository, a.k.a. METADATA.

Requirements

For closer integration with GitHub API, PkgDev.jl requires curl to be installed.

Usage

register(pkg, [url])

Register pkg at the git URL url, defaulting to the configured origin URL of the git repository Pkg.dir(pkg).

tag(pkg, [ver, [commit]])

Tag commit as version ver of package pkg and create a version entry in METADATA. If not provided, commit defaults to the current commit of the pkg repository. If ver is one of the symbols :patch, :minor, :major the next patch, minor or major version is used. If ver is not provided, it defaults to :patch.

You are strongly encouraged to update the version numbers in accordance with the semver standard:

• Use tag(pkg, :major) when you make backwards-incompatible API changes (i.e. changes that will break existing user code).
• Use tag(pkg, :minor) when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible way (i.e. existing user code will still work, but code using the new functionality will not work with older versions of your package).
• Use tag(pkg, :patch) when you make bug fixes and other improvements that don't change the API (i.e. user code is unchanged). The key question is not how "small" the change is, but how it affects the API and user code. (Don't be reluctant to bump the minor version when you add new features to the API, no matter how trivial — version numbers are cheap!)

If you drop support for an older version of Julia, you should make at least a minor version bump even if there were no API changes.

publish()

For each new package version tagged in METADATA not already published, make sure that the tagged package commits have been pushed to the repository at the registered URL for the package and if they all have, open a pull request to METADATA.

generate(pkg, license)

Generate a new package named pkg with one of the bundled license: "MIT", "BSD", CC0, "ISC", "ASL", "MPL", "GPL-2.0+", "GPL-3.0+", "LGPL-2.1+", "LGPL-3.0+". If you want to make a package with a different license, you can edit it afterwards. Generate creates a git repository at Pkg.dir(pkg) for the package and inside it LICENSE.md, README.md, REQUIRE, the julia entrypoint $pkg/src/$pkg.jl, and Travis and AppVeyor CI configuration files .travis.yml and appveyor.yml.

Warning: If you release code for Package X under the GPL, you may discourage collaboration from members of the Julia community who work on non-GPL packages. For example, if a user works on Package Y, which is licensed under the MIT license that is used in many community projects, other developers might not feel safe to read the code you contribute to Package Y because any indication that their work is derivative could lead to litigation. In effect, you create a situation in which your source code is percieved as being closed to anyone who is working on a non-GPL project.

Keyword parameters:

• path - a location where the package will be generated, the default location is Pkg.dir()
• travis - enables generation of the .travis.yml configuration for Travis CI service, the default value is true.
• appveyor - enables generation of the appveyor.yml configuration for Appveyor service, the default value is true.
• coverage - enables generation of a code coverage reporting to Coveralls and Codecov services, default value is true.

license([lic])

List all bundled licenses. If a license label specified as a parameter then a full text of the license will be printed.

freeable([io])

Returns a list of packages which are good candidates for Pkg.free. These are packages for which you are not tracking the tagged release, but for which a tagged release is equivalent to the current version. You can use Pkg.free(PkgDev.freeable()) to automatically free all such packages.

This also prints (to io, defaulting to standard output) a list of packages that are ahead of a tagged release, and prints the number of commits that separate them. It can help discover packages that may be due for tagging.