Nice work, Bryan! Thats quiet close to something I'd have. On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 2:39:33 AM UTC+3, Bryan Stearns wrote: > > It’d be hard to reliably parse & edit mix.exs files in general, but since > I can promise myself that I’ll adhere to certain formatting rules in my own > projects, I wrote https://github.com/bryanstearns/mix_deps_add … and if > you don’t like my rules (see the README), please file an issue or send a > PR. (As it happens, I didn’t support comments within the deps/0 function in > the versions I’ve released, but I’ll eventually finish the branch that > supports them.) > > I definitely don’t think something this arbitrary belongs in Mix itself! > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Vitaly Shvedchenko < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Ok, so it would be just an option to leave a version string empty to let >> mix just get the latest version of a package. This is how a ruby gem >> dependencies with Gemfile works. >> >> On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 12:37:57 AM UTC+3, Louis Pilfold wrote: >>> >>> Hey Vitaly >>> >>> The dependency file for mix is an Elixir program rather than just a >>> simple JSON file. There's no way reliably and safely programatically modify >>> the mix.exs file as a result. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Louis >>> >>> On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 at 22:17 Vitaly Shvedchenko <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> I'd like to suggest a feature and may be implement it. I've found >>>> somebody proposed this feature earlier, but it was a long time ago and >>>> there was not a single reply to it. So I'd try one more time for that poor >>>> guy and for me. >>>> >>>> When you develop elixir project and adding new dependencies to the >>>> project, you always have to find needed package onlline, find out it's >>>> latest version number and put it in your mix.exs dependencies for >>>> yourself. >>>> What could be helpful is some equivalent of a >>>> npm install --save >>>> command from nodejs world. It would be like >>>> mix deps.install package_name >>>> What this command has to do is just >>>> 1. check if hex is installed, propose to install it if it is not, >>>> 2. get the hex package info, parse its version, >>>> 3. put it in mix.exs file (with some conventional semantic versioning >>>> pattern like "~> x.y") >>>> 4. and call mix deps.get—thats it! >>>> It probably would not put the dependency in OTP applications to start >>>> list, but still it is much easier way of installing dependencies. >>>> >>>> I guess there is some conventional reasons to not implement such way of >>>> installing new dependencies, but it's not obvious for me and many other >>>> people why there is no such option. >>>> >>>> Thanks! Will be glad to have some feedback. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/9daf03ef-a9a6-44d2-b7d5-68c345b42d76%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/9daf03ef-a9a6-44d2-b7d5-68c345b42d76%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] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/2c6070cd-f108-4ddc-90f3-77f77d1b6298%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/2c6070cd-f108-4ddc-90f3-77f77d1b6298%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >
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