PackageAnalyzerJuliaCon2023

Some of the code (and data) demo'd at JuliaCon2023

Here there are two notebooks:

• compare_to_general.jl. This notebook compares an individual package against all of General, with interactive widgets.
• analyze_manifest.jl. This notebook presents an example analysis to understand the dependencies of an application.

To run these Pluto.jl notebooks:

1. Clone this repository (git clone https://github.com/ericphanson/PackageAnalyzerJuliaCon2023)
2. Start Julia in this repository (I used Julia 1.9.2) with julia --project, and instantiate the manifest (pkg> instantiate or using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate())
3. Start the Pluto server: using Pluto; Pluto.run()
4. Select the notebook of interest (either compare_to_general.jl or analyze_manifest.jl)

The notebook compare_to_general.jl provides a widget that lets you compare an individual package against all of General:

Troubleshooting

The notebook analyze_manifest.jl calls PackageAnalyzer.analyze, which in turn calls LiceneCheck.licensecheck, which seems to crash on Apple Silicon when run in Pluto notebooks. I have not been able to figure out why. Therefore I suggest you to use Rosetta if you are running this from an Apple Silicon macbook.

If you are using juliaup, you can do this by

juliaup add release~x64
juliaup override set release~x64

This will set an override to use Rosetta (x64) when launching Julia in the current directory. You can confirm by checking

julia> Sys.ARCH
:x86_64