Pkg.jl: MonkeyPkg.jl for monkey patching Pkg?

[StefanKarpinski]

The idea is that people would put import MonkeyPkg in their startup scripts and get more up-to-date monkey patching of Julia 1.0 Pkg functionality since we still need quite a lot of improvements and waiting until 1.1 could be too slow. Of course the alternative is for people to just build master where the improvements will already exist.

[fredrikekre]

I assume we will/can make a 1.0.1 release for Julia 1.0.1?

[StefanKarpinski]

Yes, but we can't add features since that's a bug fix release.

[KristofferC]

So they get the features in 1.1 just like with other stdlibs? Having a monkey patch version of all stdlibs seems unscalable.

[pfitzseb]

Wait, I thought stdlibs are supposed to be updateable without any regard to Julia version?

[KristofferC]

Sure, but that requires a system that updating them at all is possible, which we don't have right now.

[00vareladavid]

Is there a reason there have been no merged PRs lately? I don't think 1.1 should be an issue since this repo is not automatically mirrored upstream right?

[KristofferC]

The reason is that I have been busy with JuliaCon for the whole last week and was traveling yesterday. Things should be back to normal now though :)

[00vareladavid]

Should be closed by JuliaLang/julia/pull/29615?

[KristofferC]

Not really since that is still tied to julia releases?

[KristofferC]

I don't think we will go this way. Maintaining a separate repo that overwrites functions and test that etc is just not sustainable nor is it something we want to do for other stdlibs.