RFC: Julia Package Manifest File

[wildart]

Following discussion in on extended package manifest file julia/#11955. I started to work on specifying content of such manifest file in the manifest branch.

Package manifest documentation file, MANIFEST.md, includes description of the fields and some thoughts on changes in work of the package manager.

@StefanKarpinski @IainNZ

[ararslan]

If the types for specifying Julia and dependency requirements are all string, how could one specify upper and lower bounds on versions? For example, JuliaStats/TimeSeries.jl currently only supports Julia 0.4, so it has an inclusive lower bound at 0.4 and an exclusive upper bound at 0.5-. Is there a way to specify this in your proposition?

Similarly, some packages have platform-specific dependencies, usually Homebrew on OS X and WinRPM on Windows.

(Apologies if this is all obvious and I've overlooked something.)