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.

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.

Extensions

Custom metadata may be provided in a "PacletServer" extension in the PacletInfo.m:

This is where all customizations that the server can use may be provided.

What does it exactly do? What do you expect to find in the repository?

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.

Submissions

Paclet submissions are as easy as writing some text on a page, e.g. this one:

Provide me with the package name, the author name and email, and a URL linking to your package (either as a paclet or the source code) and we'll figure out how to get it packaged up as a paclet and uploaded.