RegistryUtils

A simple set of tools to generate custom registries, consisting of packages in an existing branch of METADATA, which may depend on packages in the "General" or other registries.

RegistryUtils.jl is mostly just repackaging the registry scripts in Pkg.jl

Only one function is currently exported: generate!, which is described below

Requirements

Julia 0.7 or higher

Installation

This package is not registered, so clone it in order to use it

Usage

generate!(
    registry_packages::Vector{String},
    registry_name::String,
    registry_repo::String,
    [registry_description::String = "", writedir::String = pwd()];
    force::bool = true,
    METADATA_path::String = Pkg.Pkg2.dir("METADATA"),
    registry_dirs::Vector{String} = [joinpath(homedir(), ".julia", "registries", "General")],
    stdlib_dir::String = ""
 )

Generate a registry named registry_name with repository registry_repo that contains the packages listed in registry_packages. These packages must be valid METADATA packages in the METADATA directory at METADATA_path, but do not need to be in the official Julia METADATA repository.

The packages in the new registry can have dependencies on packages in other registries. By default the "General" registry is available to resolve dependencies, any set of registries can be specified by setting registry_dirs to contain the path for each registry.

Dependencies on the standard library can either be resolved by setting stdlib_dir to be the path of the standard libraries in a git repository (i.e. in the julia repository), or if stdlib_dir is empty then a cached set of UUIDs will be used.