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

[Daniel Dunbar]

> On Dec 5, 2016, at 8:09 PM, Paul Cantrell <cantrell at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> On Dec 2, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dunbar at apple.com <mailto:daniel_dunbar at apple.com>> wrote:
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>>> On Nov 28, 2016, at 8:25 PM, Paul Cantrell via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> This version of the proposal seems acceptable to me, though I have a nagging feel that it’s more complex than it needs to be.
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>> I agree with this feeling, but am not sure how much it will matter in practice.
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> As I said in my review, I suspect it will confuse newcomers and lead to a few much-duplicated questions on Stack Overflow, but not hurt teams whose workflow is already established. One-time cost, not so bad.
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>>> AFAICT, the one thing this simpler model wouldn’t allow is for a team to share pinned versions of some individual ill-behaved dependencies without pinning all of them. If that’s the only missing behavior, my gut tells me there’s a way to do that with less cognitive burden on SwiftPM users.
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>> This is a benefit I *really* want to retain, because we continue to feel it is important for people not to overly constraint the dependency graph, and I still feel this is the right model for users to follow (pin problematic dependencies, not everything). I really want to retain the technical ability to do it, even if it is off by default.
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> Understood.
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>> If you have a concrete proposal on a better way to implement this I would love to hear it.
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> I chewed this over, and sketched out a variant that I thought was simpler. I then realized that what I came up with is basically identical to the existing proposal, except:
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> 1. I renamed `--enable-autopin` to `pin --new`.
> 2. It doesn’t have the convenience of new requiring `--repin` if everything is already pinned.
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> At least I _think_ what I came up with is nearly identical. Here it is in case you want to check me on that:
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> https://gist.github.com/pcantrell/10cf1cc2cc2d8f1b5011e0ea5f828402 <https://gist.github.com/pcantrell/10cf1cc2cc2d8f1b5011e0ea5f828402>
Yeah, I think this is basically equivalent (the "private pin file" is effectively our current local storage of what versions are cloned).

The idea of having `--all` automatically drive the boolean did occur to me, but seemed too magic (and we would still want a way to turn it off).

Thanks for trying, though!
 - Daniel

>> At this point, what I want to do is get this implemented and in a usable state, and then gauge how problematic this behavior difference is. If it is a source of confusion, then we should iterate to try and address it.
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> Agreed! This is a fine starting point.
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> Cheers,
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> Paul
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