[swift-evolution] [swift-build-dev] [Draft] SwiftPM: Adding development package as a dependency

[Ankit Agarwal]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Max Howell <max.howell at apple.com> wrote:

> 1) You have to remember to modify it back at some point, and if you are
>> iterating frequently this is tedious and error-prone
>>
>
> One way I can think of to avoid Package.swift is to place DevPackages
> inside some special folder (perhaps: DevPackages/) inside the root package
> which sounds good if I am developing some patch to some package but it
> might be awkward if I am starting to write a library and want to create a
> package to try it because I'll already have created the library package
> (though maybe minimal) but then I'll have to move the library inside
> DevPackages/
>
>
> Well, it seems to me part of the utility here is having a package be a
> local clone in an entirely different directory. So this sounds a bit
> tedious.
>
>
Any other way you can think of to avoid Package.swift?


> This would be a bit awkward but sounds good enough to me
>
>
>> 2) We don’t want any chance that DevPackage gets into the package graph
>> and thus the ecosystem.
>>
>
> what if one of the dependencies depend on a package inside DevPackage then
> should the DevPackage be preferred?
>
>
> Don’t understand.
>

RootPackage
Dependency: APackage
DevPackage: BPackage

APackage
Dependency: BPackage

If DevPackages don't specify version in Package.swift, in case of a
collision should the DevPackage be always preferred?


-- 
Ankit
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