Over the past few months, we have been iterating on and refining a design for Pkg in Julia 1.3+ to reason about binary objects that are not Julia packages. While the motivating application for this work has been improving the installation experience for binaries built with BinaryBuilder.jl, the artifacts subsystem is much more general and is widely applicable to all Julia packages.
Artifacts, as outlined in Pkg.jl#1234 and now documented in