Hiya If you go down that route you'd lose all formatting, comments, etc, which is a shame.
Have a go, no reason this couldn't be a third party mix task rather than an official built-in one. Cheers, Louis On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 12:44 Vitaly Shvedchenko < [email protected]> wrote: > But, Louis, isn't abstract syntax tree a way of safely modify elixir code? > For example I could quote all the mix.exs file, find dependencies tuple, > modify it and unquote it back. > > > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/adcb4ac0-aea5-472e-ba07-481c6e9aeb2a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/adcb4ac0-aea5-472e-ba07-481c6e9aeb2a%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/CABu8xFBYN0geu%2Bu7uvT4rhSXmszTgzFb0q-b9BtewEpJxCVOUw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
