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Location of the credentials file

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, julia

Research direction

The issue names jh run as the entry point and describes $HOME/.juliahub, the well-known credentials location, and the child-process environment; begin by tracing that credential-copying behavior. Done requires an agreed approach for remembering the server and storing credentials, rather than a defined implementation target.

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Description

This tool uses a file at $HOME/.juliahub to store credentials.

The reasons for that are:

  • do not specify the selected server again and again
  • follow the paradigm of npm, git, aws and other cli tools
  • "own" the credentials; i.e. not have them rewritten by a julia process running in the background

Having said that, jh run does copy these credentials to the well known location, while it also sets the JULIA_PKG_SERVER and JULIA_PKG_USE_CLI_GIT in the child process' so it will then use them.

Let's discuss improvements to this approach (i.e. remember the server in ~/.juliahub, but mkdir -p and store the credentials themselves in the well known location, or something similar)

Dominant language
Go
Stars
3
Forks
1
Avg merge
4d 5h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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