Can the MATLAB Package Manager be used to distribute packages on GitHub or any cloud repository?

MATLAB now has a built-in package management tool, MPM. I hope to distribute my packages through it. However, I haven't found any content related to cloud repositories. I only found content about using a local folder as a repository.

Answer 1

[Mike Croucher]

Currently (As of R2024b) only local folders are supported. Can you tell us more about your requirements though?

[Jeffrey]

I have the same basic question as the OP.

In my case I have a set of tools which would be ideally distributed as four packages, with various dependencies. With the current situation, it seems easiest for me to combine these as one download just to simplify user experience, but at the cost of making development more complex. It seem to me that the MPM structure would mostly solve this problem, but there isn't yet a way to point a repository on the cloud?

Bottom line is that I want other scientists to easily download and resolve the package dependencies.

[Hannes]

Same applies for us. We're looking for a package management similar to conan/node/composer/...

We want to use common tools and methods as packages distributed via a private gitlab instance or similar. Assume a department working with MATLAB on a lot of projects and we have a bunch of 'utility' methods and also packages for calculations of type A, B and C, packages for visualizations of type D, E and F and packages to access other internal services of type G, H and I. Colleagues might require a few of those and might want to tick to a specific version.

Right now we'd need to share a network drive (which is very slow) or need everyone to checkout a copy of all our tools to have them available (which requires way too much storage, especially when handling multiple versions).