Including package docs

[mkschulze]

Hello,

as we have the docs functionality within our bot, it would be interesting to see which packages you would like to have available.

Here is my personal list:

• all HoJ packages
• HTTP.jl
• Genie.jl
• Stipple.jl
• DataStructures.jl
• CSV.jl
• DataFrames.jl
• Documenter.jl

[Ved-Mahajan]

Here are a few I feel are important:

Plots.jl
DifferentialEquations.jl
Flux.jl

[tk3369]

I'm unsure if adding all these dependencies is a good idea because we would have to import these packages even though the bot is only using the documentation but nothing else. It is also an unbounded problem because the number of packages will grow over time and it is not sustainable.

However, I don't have a good alternative to suggest either. Let's keep the discussion going and think about how to implement properly at the same time.

[mkschulze]

If we can use the packages then in the REPL to show things in helping scenarios on the server it's worth it I think. Otherwise, I don't know, maybe we could web scrape the docs to achieve the same?

[rmsrosa]

The Discord bot works as a bridge (I don't know the technical term) between our Discord server and the server running the julia script, which currently is being hosted in @Azzaare 's server. It is not free and it has limited resources, so I don't think it is a good idea to keep adding packages just like that.

However, we could, in principle, create a database of docstrings from several different packages and store that. We would just need to update it regularly.

[Azzaare]

I don't mind giving a try to loading a huge list of packages and see how the server handles it.
Also, I don't mind upgrading the server if necessary.

[mkschulze]

Ok, then we might give it a try then I suppose?

[Azzaare]

We have a hojbot-dev user available, if we set it up, we can make the tests easily and the memory it eats.