Site Search

The site may be searched to find the relevant paclets to you:

It also provides many different types of aggregations, e.g. by Author:

Other navigation aides may be developed if there is demand.

Analytics

You can now see some of the analytics for the site, as pulled from Google Analytics. They're a little bit sad, but hopefully they'll improve in the future.

One caveat is that these numbers are for users not pageviews, which are subtly different. The former is expected to be much lower than the latter.

Installation

Installation is stupid easy, as it's just a small layer on top of PacletInstall. The instructions are also on every page, and this is copied directly from the MeshTools page:

<< https://paclets.github.io/PacletServer/Install.wl
PublicPacletInstall["MeshTools"]

You can also install directly using PacletInstall from the Repository cache:

PacletInstall[
 "ImportMesh",
 "Site" -> "http://raw.githubusercontent.com/paclets/Repository/master"
 ]

The former simply provides a nice layer for people to specify alternate download locations, which can be helpfull.

The idea is to have something like the Python Package Index or the stuff behind npm:

The main reason for it is just a backend to PacletInstall though, where people can submit their repos so as to centralize installation, encourage the use of paclets, and make a place where everyone can see and easily install packages.

Documentation

One future goal is to be able to include documentation on the paclet server. In the coming few weeks I'm hoping to integrate some work I've done on making documentation that both integrates with the Mathematica Documentation Center and also can be exported to Markdown and thus can be used to build a site.

An example of such a site is here:

I want to provide the ability to make a site like that under the main paclet server page and link to it.

No Update Requests Required

For certain types of projects (namely those hosted on paclet servers or distributed via GitHub releases) no maintenance is necessary on the submitter side. Updates can be loaded automatically found and loaded at build time.

This motivates an approximately bi-weekly build process on maybe Monday and Friday. (TBD when). As always, though, it's possible to build the server on one's own. Just ask me how and you can get fast builds whenever you'd like.