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rm ubuntu nightly ppa as not actively maintained #23484
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..... I thought we've removed all traces of it a long time ago..................... |
To be fair this is under the headline:
So... Whats the status of the other ones? |
The PPA does seem to be the one that recieves the most complains. Not sure if it's just because there are a lot of ubuntu users... Not entirely the same issue but you do make me realized that the arch version should link to x86_64 instead.... |
The Debian and Ubuntu packages are more outdated than the PPA. |
Turns out a lot of these are pretty outdated. For example, MacPorts is on 0.4.6, which isn't even the most recent release in the 0.4 series, and the Homebrew tap explicitly declares itself to be unmaintained. |
Can we just remove these then? It should be enough to recommend binaries in the README. |
The nightly link had at least some (outdated) 0.6.0. Do we really want to keep the link just above "nightly"that only links to unmaintained 0.4.x, e.g. in: https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/julia I suggest rather the opposite, and say something like "PPAs are outdated (use Julia's download page or), but here are recent 'nightlies' and PPAs may or may not get updated". |
The PPA nightlies aren't working, and haven't worked for quite a while. I don't have time to debug them, but if someone wants to email me and propose ways forward to getting that to work, I'm more than happy to shepherd them through the build process. |
I think we should just remove the references to the various system package managers and say something along the lines of: # Binary Installation
<existing text, minus the list of distros>
**Note**: While some system package managers have Julia installers available,
these are not maintained nor endorsed by the Julia project. They may be outdated
and/or unmaintained. We recommend you use the official Julia binaries instead. |
@ararslan Let's do what you suggested. |
Okay, sounds good. @xgdgsc, would you be willing to make that change in this PR? |
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Thanks!
We should probably remove the corresponding section on https://julialang.org/downloads/platform.html as well? (Section from |
rm ubuntu nightly ppa as not actively maintained.