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

[Ankit Agarwal]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:10 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 seems pretty similar to standard overrides as part of the lockfile
> proposal to me, so we could add it on there, maybe with
> a convenience command line.
>

Okay, does this sound good :

`swift build --dev-pkg=../MyLib --dev-pkg=../MyLib2`

-- 
Ankit
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