Backend for Julia

[mpcasey2718]

Hello Jauhien,

The Julia language also has a package manager: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/packages/ , which sounds similar to the way Gentoo manages packages. I haven't written any ebuilds myself, but I wondered if you thought it would be worthwhile to write a backend for Julia.

I tried reading through the code for gs-elpa, but got a bit lost in the elpa_db.py file, specifically the get_download_uries method. I wasn't sure if archive-contents was something specific to the elpa repository, or something common to git.

In your To Do list you mentioned implementing ebuild generation using an external tool, with the example of pypi. Julia might provide another use case to test. I should be happy to test or try writing my own if that helps.

Thank you,
Michael