Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimilan@club.fr via lists.fedoraproject.org 19 Sep  to epel-devel Hi!
I've just packaged the Julia language for technical computing for Fedora, and I thought it would be very useful to add it to EPEL7, since a large share of the user base is in academia, on RHEL, CentOS or Scientific Linux machines.
But Julia is still unstable, and evolving at a rapid pace. Though compatibility is preserved as much as possible, a few breaking changes are introduced in each major version, about twice a year. On the other hand, until 1.0 is reached, it does not make sense to keep a beta version of Julia and maintain it for years: it will soon become completely useless and even misleading for users.
So I wonder whether it makes sense to package it for EPEL7, or whether I'd better wait for 1.0 to be out (which may take a couple of years). Or can I keep a package in the testing repo until that point?
Thanks for your help
You've waited a couple of years. At this point, julia is at version 1.4. If you want this in EPEL7, or EPEL8, it is up to you as a package maintainer.
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