Is there a MATLAB package manager?

I cannot find any MathWorks endorsed package managers. The user-built solutions I have found do not seem to be popular (PackMan, DepMat, mpm) or regularly maintained. What do people recommend? Is there a reason for the lack of package manager in comparison to pip (python), npm (JavaScript)? How does MathWorks recommend I organise seperate but interdependent code?

[Rik]

There are continuous improvements for the FileExchange, which you could access through the AddOn manager from R2017a. I don't know if there are plans to extend this further and allow submissions to specify versioned dependencies on other submissions.

I vaguely remember seeing such a request, but I can't find it here (nor in the old thread), so feel free to post it there.

[James Bland]

Hi Rik,

Thanks for your repsonse. Im not particular familiar with FileExchange apart from to download the odd matlab script. Is there a particular workflow that you would recommend using, or you use yourself, in packaging up your own code via FileExchange?

[Munin]

I am stabilising MPM in https://github.com/mobeets/mpm/pull/76 you may just use that

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[Sean de Wolski]

Right now there is no package manager like the ones you listed in that everything in MATLAB is tied to the path. Using MATLAB Add-ons with the File Exchange and MATLAB Projects with reference projects are the two best current solutions. You can minimize namespace collisions with namespace packages in MATLAB (note the terminology here does not imply package like in other languages).

[James Bland]

hi sean,

thanks for your answer. If you could point me to any good examples of matlab workflows/ code organisation that would be appreciated!

[Stephen]

@James Bland there is no such thing. Hope this helps