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There are a number of other <code>julia*</code> attributes but most of them are broken. Work is ongoing to add macOS support (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/123394). | There are a number of other <code>julia*</code> attributes but most of them are broken. Work is ongoing to add macOS support (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/123394). | ||
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* -stable packages are for Julia LTS versions, which are very old at this point. I believe 1.0-ish. You probably want something more recent. | |||
* -bin packages are not built from source directly, but are instead built off of the official binaries released by Julia. Building Julia from source has proven to be quite a nightmare, so the -bin packages take the easy route. From the end-user perspective, -bin packages should be indistinguishable from source built ones. | |||
Revision as of 07:44, 3 August 2021
tl;dr Use the julia_16-bin package.
There are a number of other julia* attributes but most of them are broken. Work is ongoing to add macOS support (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/123394).
Explanation:
- -stable packages are for Julia LTS versions, which are very old at this point. I believe 1.0-ish. You probably want something more recent.
- -bin packages are not built from source directly, but are instead built off of the official binaries released by Julia. Building Julia from source has proven to be quite a nightmare, so the -bin packages take the easy route. From the end-user perspective, -bin packages should be indistinguishable from source built ones.