Merge pull request #117 from tp2750/update-package-templates

Update package templates

Author: tp2750

docs/comparisons/utility/package_templates.md

@@ -11,12 +11,59 @@ There are several ways to create a Julia packages from templates.
 ### PkgTemplates.jl
 {{badge PkgTemplates}}
 
+> Create new Julia packages, the easy way
+
 This package is the the most popular package generator.
 
+It helps you set up the package structure, git repository, CI automations for building documentation, running tests, checking code coverage and more.
+
+### PackageMaker.jl
+{{badge PackageMaker}}
+
+> GUI for PkgTemplates.jl: "Creating new Julia packages, the easy way" - made a bit simpler.
+
+From the package README:
+
+This package allows you to create either a new package or a new project.
+It implements a subset of [PkgTemplates.jl](https://github.com/JuliaCI/PkgTemplates.jl) features (which subset hopefully covers >90% of its use cases).
+It also adds a couple of features of its own, e.g. ability to create Julia projects, or adding dependencies to projects or packages being created.
+Being a GUI app, it should be mostly self-explanatory, and external links for more information are provided from the GUI, too.
+
 ### PkgSkeleton.jl
 {{badge PkgSkeleton}}
 
-PkgSkeleton is another package generator.
+> Generate Julia package skeletons using a simple template system
+
+From the package README:
+
+Julia package for creating new packages and updating existing ones, following common practices and workflow recommendations.
+
+Design principles:
+
+* Keep it simple: do nothing more than substitute strings into templates, with a few safeguards. This keeps the code simple: currently less than 300 LOC without docstrings. For me, this covers 99% of the use cases; the rest I edit manually.
+* Tread ligthly: don't modify uncommitted files (unless asked to, but really don't do that), or files with the same content (to preserve timestamps).
+* Assume that tooling for packages will keep changing, make it easy to update.
+
+
+### BestieTemplate.jl
+{{badge BestieTemplate}}
+
+[BestieTemplate.jl](https://github.com/JuliaBesties/BestieTemplate.jl) 
+
+> Template for Julia Programming Language packages using the copier engine.
+
+A newer package generator announced at JuliaCon2024.
+
+The main features of this package/template are:
+
+* It provides a curated (opinionated) list of tools and best practices for Julia package development
+* It can be applied and reapplied to existing packages, allowing the updates in the template to be imported into the package
+
+It is a bit heavy as it is based on the [copier](https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) python package.
+
+All of the options are listed [here](https://juliabesties.github.io/BestieTemplate.jl/stable/30-questions/#Table-format).
+
+###
 
 ### Pkg.jl
 {{badge Pkg}}
@@ -39,4 +86,4 @@ Here are some examples:
 * [JuliaSmoothOptimizers/JSOTemplate.jl](https://github.com/JuliaSmoothOptimizers/JSOTemplate.jl)
 
 ## Star History
-{{star_history PkgTemplates PkgSkeleton Pkg}}
+{{star_history PkgTemplates PkgSkeleton Pkg BestieTemplate PackageMaker}}

docs/utils.jl

@@ -151,8 +151,10 @@ const PKGINFOS = [
     # PkgInfo(pkgname="LopShelve", username="machkouroke", docslink="https://lopuniverse.me/LopShelve.jl/"),
     PkgInfo(pkgname="PeriodicTable", username="JuliaPhysics", branch="master", docslink=nothing),
     PkgInfo(pkgname="PhysicalConstants", username="JuliaPhysics", branch="master"),
-    PkgInfo(pkgname="Mendeleev", username="Eben60", branch="main", docslink="https://eben60.github.io/Mendeleev.jl/"),
+    PkgInfo(pkgname="Mendeleev", username="Eben60", branch="main", docslink="https://eben60.github.io/Mendeleev.jl"),
     PkgInfo(pkgname="IsotopeTable", username="Gregstrq", branch="main", docslink=nothing),
+    PkgInfo(pkgname="BestieTemplate", username="JuliaBesties", branch="main"),
+    PkgInfo(pkgname="PackageMaker", username="Eben60", branch="main", docslink="https://eben60.github.io/PackageMaker.jl"),
 ]
 
 function get_pkginfo(pkgname)