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What is the Rascal Package Directory?

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The Package Directory provides free access to and an overview of libraries, tools and frameworks written in Rascal (and other languages) which are:

  • contributed by the community
  • useful for the community
  • excluding the core language implementation (interpreter, compiler, repl, IDE extensions)

Each package is encapsulated in a jar file, is deployed in the UseTheSource Maven repository. To use such a package, you can add the dependency to your pom file and the Maven repository as well:

<repositories>
   <repository>
       <id>usethesource</id>
       <url>https://releases.usethesource.io/maven/</url>
   </repository>
</repositories>

All packages always come with the following information, directly available under http://www.rascalmpl.org/docs/Packages/:

  • License information.
  • Funding information.
  • Citation information.
  • Release notes.
  • Maven dependency example snippet.
  • Rascal API documentation, generated from the annotated sources.
  • Optional manual(s) generated using rascal-tutor.
  • Optional author list (by default authors can be find via git and github.com meta-data).

The release and deployment mechanisms that are in place guarantee that:

  • Each package' latest release version is documented here.
  • Each package is tested before release.
  • Each package documents the rascal version it dependend on at the time of release.
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If a package was not released (yet) after a major or minor release of rascal, then it may still work with the newest release, but this is not guaranteed. Packages owners are reminded to upgrade and release by the UseTheSource community.