[swift-build-dev] [swift-evolution] Proposal: Package Manager Version Pinning

[Daniel Dunbar]

Ok, great! We will discuss this some more and see what we can come up with.

 - Daniel

> On Oct 14, 2016, at 2:18 PM, orta therox <orta.therox at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Same, yeah 👍
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>> On 14 Oct 2016, at 21:21, Eloy Durán via swift-build-dev <swift-build-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> 5. Given that many people agree there are two workflows (we ourselves had talked about this a lot when writing the proposal, but didn't put it in), we felt it makes sense to consider adding that as an explicit declaration *somewhere*.
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>>> @Eloy, @Orta: Suppose we had a semantic notion of which packages were intended to be "top-level" versus used as a dependency, and we chose our defaults accordingly (in this case, we would orient workflows towards pinning by default in the top-level case, in the used as a dependency case we would orient away from it, e.g. warning you if you checked it in). What would you think of such a design?
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>> Oooooooh, I like it.
>> 
>> Even though I would probably still pin/lock personally, I think this default combined with the explicit declaration strikes a perfect balance in trade-offs 👍
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