Pkg.jl: Command to add registry

[adamslc]

It would be nice if there was a way to add registries from the Pkg REPL mode. As it is now, I have to clone the registry into .julia/registries. Perhaps the following syntax would work

(v0.7) pkg> add registry <path/repo here>

I took a look at the Pkg code, but unfortunately adding this sort of feature is way over my head.

[KristofferC]

Yep, should be added.

[StefanKarpinski]

I think there should be a registry command with various sub commands including add, rm, list and up.

[davidanthoff]

Any chance that this might make it into the first release? We have a bunch of plans where this would be really key.

[fredrikekre]

Shouldn't be too hard to implement (I think), just have a look at the other commands if you wanna give it a shot.

[davidanthoff]

I won't have the time to contribute code to this, I'm afraid...

[fredrikekre]

Very WIP, but here I add a this registry https://github.com/fredrikekre/Registry where I have registered ImportMacros (which is not in General):

(Pkg) pkg> registry add https://github.com/fredrikekre/Registry.git
   Cloning registry from "https://github.com/fredrikekre/Registry.git"

(Pkg) pkg> add ImportMacros
  Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General`
  Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git`
  Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/Registry`
  Updating git-repo `https://github.com/fredrikekre/Registry.git`
 Resolving package versions...
  Updating `Project.toml`
 [no changes]
  Updating `Manifest.toml`
 [no changes]

[fredrikekre]

More progress: Now supports multiple registries with the same name, distinguished by uuid, and removal of registries:

(Pkg) pkg> registry add https://github.com/fredrikekre/Registry.git
   Cloning registry from "https://github.com/fredrikekre/Registry.git"
     Added registry `Registry` to `~/.julia/registries/Registry`

(Pkg) pkg> registry rm Registry
ERROR: multiple registries with name Registry, please specify with uuid.

(Pkg) pkg> registry rm Registry=ae0cb698-197b-42ec-a0a0-4f871aea6013
  Removing registry `Registry` from ~/.julia/registries/Registry/xhgIZ

[davidanthoff]

Great! If that could make it into the release, it would be awesome!

[BenJWard]

@fredrikekre Did you generate the registry by hand, or did you have some generator make it from the ImportMacros?

[fredrikekre]

By hand.