[GitHub] [arrow-julia] ericphanson edited a comment on pull request #278: Create CONTRIBUTING.md

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ericphanson edited a comment on pull request #278:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-julia/pull/278#issuecomment-1019595553


   Thanks for the helpful list and the link to the shell script. To answer your questions,
   
   1. No, we don’t prepare binary packages. Julia works by JIT compiling the source at runtime via the `julia` binary, so we only distribute source code.
   
       For some more context, this distribution is usually done via Julia’s package manager; when we “register” the package, we supply the registry with a git-tree-sha of the source tree of the code being registered (this is automated), and the package manager Pkg.jl grabs that tree from the git repo and serves that to users. (Or more accurately, a “storage server” does the grabbing from GitHub or where ever the repo is hosted and stores the source code indefinitely, e.g. in case the original host goes down, and user-facing “package servers” sit in front and serve the code to users through Pkg.jl).
   
   2. Sure, I would be interested in joining in the future.
   


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