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

[Paul Cantrell]

> On Oct 14, 2016, at 7:18 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dunbar at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 14, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Paul Cantrell via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> That’s clearly a bigger, separate idea, not necessary to hash out right now. I mean it just to illustrate what better approaches might look like. I’m skeptical that simply disabling pinning does a good job of solving the intended problem, and don’t think it should weigh quite so heavily on the proposal at hand.
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> The current idea wouldn't "disable it”

Right, my bad wording. Is “turn off / discourage pinfiles by default for libraries but not apps” a better description of the general idea?

> it would discourage you from checking it in for a library (it really comes down to you have to run two commands, not one). I agree all the other things you outline are useful, and that not checking it in doesn't magically solve the problem here.


If the difference were only what’s in .gitignore, I’d be completely comfortable with that. Enthusiastic.

And if there’s some distinction between libs and top-level packages that only affects a generated .gitignore and/or emitted warnings, I’d be completely comfortable with that.

I’m skeptical of deeper special-casing for libs vs. top-level, but it sounds like the special-casing may not actually be that deep. If so, I’m just fussing over nothing!

> On Oct 14, 2016, at 7:17 PM, Alexis Beingessner <abeingessner at apple.com> wrote:
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> A few comments down, Yehuda even provides an example of him doing just that with Bundler:
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> https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/838#issuecomment-253366352 <https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/838#issuecomment-253366352>
Yeah, I’d love to see SwiftPM or a companion tool automate that. Totally tractable problem, and I’ll bet we see quality payoffs in the lib ecosystem.

Cheers,

Paul

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