Finalizing Your Julia Package: Documentation, Testing, Coverage, and Publishing


In this tutorial we will go through the steps to finalizing a Julia package. At this point you have some functionality you wish to share with the world… what do you do? You want to have documentation, code testing each time you commit (on all the major OSs), a nice badge which shows how much of the code is tested, and put it into metadata so that people could install your package just by typing Pkg.add(“Pkgname”). How do you do all of this?

Note: At anytime feel free to checkout my package repository DifferentialEquations.jl which should be a working example.

Generate the Package and Get it on Github

First you will want to generate your package and get it on Github repository. Make sure you have a Github account, and then setup the environment variables in the git shell:

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