JuliaLang/julia — Issue #432: package management system
Author: shabbychef
Created: 2012-02-21 06:56:45+00:00
State: open

This is probably v 2.0 or beyond, but a good system for contributing/installing/maintaining packages (or modules, libraries, whatever they are called in Julia), like that in R via CRAN, would allow developers to contribute to the project without having to touch the core repo. Making the package system frictionless goes a long way towards growing the community. (Compare R to Matlab in this regard, where the Mathworks has a vested interest in selling toolboxes, so community packages take a back seat.)