[siproprio]

After the issue, I nuked the .julia folder, and now it is taking too long to clone the "JuliaRegistries/General.git" repo.

By the download speed, it might take a few hours before I can plot something.

It also seems that just doing "git clone JuliaRegistries/General.git" is much faster than doing "] add Plots"

[dagw]

Is this on Windows? I've experienced the same for the past few releases in Windows. For some reason that clone step is ridiculously slow.

[oxinabox]

Window registry issues have been a thing.

I have heard it is to do with how windows antivirus works. Since the registry is like 10,000 seperate files. It chokes on them.

I have heard there is an upcoming feature to allow the package manager to work with the registry being kept inside a tarball, which is specifically being added to deal with this

[siproprio]

It's not an av issue, at least not on my machine.

[siproprio]

Yes.

[siproprio]

> (@v1.6) pkg> add Plots Installing known registries into `~\.julia` Cloning registry from "https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git" Fetching: [==> ] 3.4 %

I gave up because it's just too slow (more than 15 min to get to 3%).

Maybe plotting is indeed faster, but I don't think I'll actually get to that point.

[the_duke]

Did you try a manual git clone to rule out any network or FS issues?

[siproprio]

A manual git clone is very slow for the Julia registry, but it's still an order of magnitude faster...

[3JPLW]

Is your home folder on a network drive?

[siproprio]

Nope.

[DNF2]

This is a Windows issue, I'm pretty sure. My solution is easy, install Julia under WSL. In fact, after moving from MacOS to Windows, this is my goto solution: install as much as I can under WSL.

Problem disappeared.