Hi Jose, Thank you so much for that information, that's so helpful! I think I'll do it exactly like you laid out. :)
Eli On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 2:12:44 AM UTC-4, José Valim wrote: > > We don't plan to support other SCMs in Mix itself but you should be able > to augment Mix using Mix.SCM. Assuming that you implement a MixFossil > module that implements Mix.SCM and make it available as a separate project, > you can integrate it to your repos in three steps: > > 1. Install it as an archive in your machine: "mix archive.install hex > mix_fossil" (assuming mix_fossil is the name of the project) > 2. For every project that needs it, add this to the top of your mix.exs: > Mix.SCM.prepend(MixFossil) > 3. And inside "def project", add this: [archives: [mix_fossil: "~> 0.1"]] > (where 0.1 is the proper version) > > Now Mix will always load the SCM and will guarantee it is available before > you run anything. > > > > *José Valim* > www.plataformatec.com.br > Skype: jv.ptec > Founder and Director of R&D > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Eli Bierman <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> I use Fossil SCM for some of my private repositories, and I would like to >> be able to use the the Fossil repositories directly as Mix dependencies in >> my Elixir projects. >> >> It seems pretty straight-forward to create an implementation of the >> Mix.SCM behavior to include a Mix.SCM.Fossil module in addition to the >> already present Mix.SCM.GIt: >> >> https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/lib/mix/lib/mix/scm/git.ex >> >> My question is: If I write a mix integration with Fossil SCM using >> Mix.SCM.Git as a guide, would that be something that's good for merging >> into Elixir Core? >> >> I figure I'm probably not the only using Fossil SCM, and it wouldn't >> change any existing behavior, so it seems good to have more options for >> handling mix dependencies. What do other people think? I know there aren't >> extensions for Mercurial and Subversion, so maybe there's a good reason to >> only have support for the most popular SCM in core and a better place for >> it somewhere else. >> >> Let me know if you think this would be something that might be good for >> Elixir Core, or if you have any questions about the proposal. Thanks! >> >> Cheers, >> Eli >> >> P.S. If you're wondering why I would use git instead of Fossil, check out >> this page: >> http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/5249b354-644d-49d8-ab48-a8fa0695926f%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/5249b354-644d-49d8-ab48-a8fa0695926f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/2ba2e167-61b8-4139-9c42-30e1964211f5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
