Stream: helpdesk (published)

Topic: Artifacts for projects that are not packages

Yakir Luc Gagnon (Nov 26 2021 at 09:37):

In the various blogs, docs, and posts about Artifacts it is very nicely explained how to use Artifacts in a package. I'd love to see a MWE of using Artifacts in a project that is not a package.

My specific use-case is providing all the code to reproduce the analysis (to be) published in a scientific article. This analysis depends on raw data that is hosted online.

I really like that the data is:

• linked to its sha256
• downloaded and managed by the Artifacts framework
• located at artifact"name"
• maintained (and gc) by the Artifacts framework

Does anyone have a good example for this?

One specific problem I currently have, for instance, is that although I have a Artifact.toml file in the project's directory, activating and then instantiating the session does not "install" the artifacts specified in the Artifacts.toml file. I need to "manually" download_artifact or ensure_artifact_installed first.

Yakir Luc Gagnon (Nov 26 2021 at 12:08):

the solution was to use ArtifactUtils

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