Binary Build of Julia 1.7: julia_17-bin

[totoroot]

Julia 1.7 has been released recently as the new stable version.
I'd love to get this packaged on NixOS to make use of the new features listed in the release notes.

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1.7/
• source URL: https://julialang.org/downloads/#current_stable_release
• license: mit
• platforms: unix, linux, darwin

Documentation might also have to be updated:
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Julia

Pinging @samuela, as they seem to have been involved in packaging the Julia binary packages in the past.

[totoroot]

Also I noticed that the following packages are outdated:

• julia-lts (1.0.4)
• julia-lts-bin (1.0.5)

The current LTS release is 1.5.4 and the source can be found here.

Also I noticed that the 1.6 binary build can neither be found on https://search.nixos.org/packages, nor with nix-env -qaP julia_16-bin although I can install it just fine with nix-env -iA nixpkgs.julia_16-bin.

Can anyone shine some light on these issues?

[samuela]

Yes, getting 1.7 packaged would be dope. And AFAIU there's no good reason for the lts versions to be outdated. We just need to get around to fixing them. The big problem with Julia is that source builds don't really work for any of the recent releases. I've wasted many hours trying to fix them. I think the easiest way forward is to just do the binary -bin releases. Previously there was some contention about whether or not we should ever alias julia-lts to a -bin package. But there's no reason for the -bin packages to be outdated AFAIK.

The search.nixos.org issue has been brought up in the past (#116697 (comment)) but I don't think there's a bug report for it yet. No idea why that's failing...

[samuela]

To get up to speed on previous Julia packaging efforts the best place to start is prob https://discourse.nixos.org/t/need-special-build-of-nightly-julia-version/14504/4?u=samuela.

[totoroot]

The binary build of Julia 1.7 was added with commit 1526faf
LTS got updated with commit 36afb58
Julia 10 has been marked as deprecated with commit 6e176f7

Many thanks to @ninjin

[ghost]

On Sat 18 Dec 2021, Matthias Thym wrote: The binary build of Julia 1.7 was added with commit 1526faf LTS got updated with commit 36afb58 Julia 10 has been marked as deprecated with commit 6e176f7 Many thanks to @ninjin

My pleasure, I hope you can all put the packages to good use. Do feel free to poke me whenever there is a Julia release as I at times may not have my eyes in the right spot to notice.