[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0145: Package Manager Version Pinning (Revised)

[Daniel Dunbar]

> On Dec 1, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Alexis via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> Haven’t had a chance to catch up on the latest discussion, but I just saw that the Yarn developers posted an excellent piece on lockfiles this week:
> 
> https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2016/11/24/lockfiles-for-all <https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2016/11/24/lockfiles-for-all>
> 
> They argue lockfiles should be commited by libraries (but still ignored by applications). The essential point is that this makes it easier for developers of the library to maintain a coherent build of the library when dependencies ship a bug. The focus is particularly on new developers, who would otherwise lack a lock file.

This post does not acknowledge the social and cultural engineering impact of this policy contributing to a lessening of conformance to semantic versioning. I still believe such an effect will happenl, and that it will have negative repercussions for the ecosystem. I am willing to be convinced (and hopefully am wrong), but I find any post which doesn't acknowledge the potential for this an incomplete argument.

I will also point at that we have `package edit` as a top-level feature exactly to enable the downstream developer contribution behavior in a way which avoids the problem this blog post is referencing.

 - Daniel

> 
>> On Nov 20, 2016, at 12:48 AM, Anders Bertelrud <anders at apple.com <mailto:anders at apple.com>> wrote:
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>> Hello Swift community,
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>> The review of "SE-0145: Package Manager Version Pinning" begins again after revisions, starting now and running through November 28th. The proposal is available here:
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>> 	https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0145-package-manager-version-pinning.md <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0145-package-manager-version-pinning.md>
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