<div dir="ltr">Updated the proposal to commandline override here: <a href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/blob/swiftpm_dev_package/proposals/NNNN-swiftpm-development-package-as-dependency.md">https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/blob/swiftpm_dev_package/proposals/NNNN-swiftpm-development-package-as-dependency.md</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Ankit Agarwal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ankit@ankit.im" target="_blank">ankit@ankit.im</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:10 AM, Max Howell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:max.howell@apple.com" target="_blank">max.howell@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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"><div><span><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><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"><div><span><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><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"><div>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><br></div><div>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></div></span>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.<span><br><br></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Any other way you can think of to avoid Package.swift?</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>This seems pretty similar to standard overrides as part of the lockfile proposal to me, so we could add it on there, maybe with</div><div>a convenience command line.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">Okay, does this sound good :</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">`swift build --dev-pkg=../MyLib --dev-pkg=../MyLib2`<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>-- <br><div>Ankit<br><br></div>
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