PkgHelp.jl

This is a simple helper library for generating packages and storing them in a common location, from there linking them to Pkg.dir(pkg_name). My use case is that I store my own packages that are under development in directory that I synchronize between different computers using Syncthing. The steps necessary to achieve this are automated using this package:

using PkgHelp

# Supports the same arguments as PkgDev.generate. Additionally, will
# strip ".jl" from end of package name, as shown here.
PkgHelp.generate("TestPackage.jl", "MIT")

INFO: Initializing TestPackage repo: /Users/stefanos/.julia/v0.5/TestPackage
INFO: Origin: https://github.com/jagot/TestPackage.jl.git
INFO: Generating LICENSE.md
INFO: Generating README.md
INFO: Generating src/TestPackage.jl
INFO: Generating test/runtests.jl
INFO: Generating REQUIRE
INFO: Generating .gitignore
INFO: Generating .travis.yml
INFO: Generating appveyor.yml
INFO: Generating .codecov.yml
INFO: Committing TestPackage generated files
Input Julia pkg sync dir: ~/julia-sync
Moving /Users/stefanos/.julia/v0.5/TestPackage -> /Users/stefanos/programmering/julia/TestPackage.jl
Linking /Users/stefanos/programmering/julia/TestPackage.jl -> /Users/stefanos/.julia/v0.5/TestPackage
Remote url https://github.com/jagot/TestPackage.jl.git -> git@github.com:jagot/TestPackage.jl.git

Input Julia pkg sync dir: only has to be done once per machine. The path entered is stored in ~/.julia/pkghelp.conf.

This packages is also useful when setting up a new machine (make sure only packages are stored in ~/julia-sync for this to work as intended):

using PkgHelp

for pkg in readdir(expanduser("~/julia-sync"))
    PkgHelp.link(pkg)
end

NB. It is not very useful to sync packages that have binary dependencies built in their deps/ directory, since that will at least be platform dependent, and maybe also host dependent. Use this helper package for Julia-only packages.