<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">1) You have to remember to modify it back at some point, and if you are iterating frequently this is tedious and error-prone</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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/</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>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.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">This would be a bit awkward but sounds good enough to me</div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">2) We don’t want any chance that DevPackage gets into the package graph and thus the ecosystem.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">what if one of the dependencies depend on a package inside DevPackage then should the DevPackage be preferred?</div></div>
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</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Don’t understand.</div></body></html>