Hi guys, Thank you for your responses, and thank you, Valim, for explaining the motivation behind `*MIX_BUILD_PATH*`.
The idea is to keep a consistency of the possibilities to configure paths for artifacts. We have both ways to configure *build_path*: *mix.exs* and env var. I thought it would be nice if we could have the same flexibility for *deps_path*. In our case is to avoid having to change the *mix.exs* only because a technicality of our Docker environment, but I imagine some other scenarios like one that you have limited storage or network resources (this is mostly not a problem today, I know) and you want to keep every dependency of your libraries and apps in a single directory. This is hard to archive if you don't have control of all *mix.exs* in your system (a CI server of Elixir projects is a good example of this). So my point is more about flexibility and consistency. On Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 12:43:58 PM UTC-3, Unified Front wrote: > > Hi all > Apologies, I didn’t realise you could do so in that context, therefore > jumped to a conclusion that it was a typo… > R. > Fridrik. > > On 11 Jun 2019, at 12:44, Allen Madsen <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > This is an appropriate place to discuss proposals to change the language, > which the initial post did. My follow up question was questioning the merit > of adding it to the language, when it seems trivial to achieve the desired > result with no change. > > It was deps_path: because deps_path is an option passed in a keyword list > in a mix.exs file. > https://hexdocs.pm/mix/master/Mix.Project.html#module-configuration > > Allen Madsen > http://www.allenmadsen.com > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:42 AM Unified Front <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> Sorry for jumping in here, but shouldn’t that be something like this: >> >> deps_path = System.get_env("MIX_DEPS_PATH") || “some default path" >> >> (this level of questions should probably not be handled in here in >> elixir-lang-core, but rather >> https://elixirforum.com and/or https://elixir-lang.slack.com ) >> >> R. >> Fridrik. >> >> >> On 11 Jun 2019, at 00:09, Allen Madsen <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >> Is there a reason that it's insufficient to do: >> >> deps_path: System.get_env("MIX_DEPS_PATH") || "deps" >> >> Allen Madsen >> http://www.allenmadsen.com >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:45 PM Philip Sampaio <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> We currently have some environment variables available to configure Mix >>> <https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.html#module-environment-variables> and one >>> of them is *MIX_BUILD_PATH*. >>> In our development environment we use Docker and Docker compose, and >>> this env var helps a lot with caching and issues related to Docker for >>> Mac. >>> <https://stories.abletech.nz/optimising-docker-for-mac-and-elixir-130db4ecd7c3> >>> We mount a volume outside the application directory to have a better >>> performance. The idea is to have the same for our dependencies. >>> >>> I know that we can configure the *deps_path* through Mix project as an >>> option, but It would be great if we could configure this using an >>> environment variable just like the build path. >>> We could call this new env var *MIX_DEPS_PATH.* >>> What do you think? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Philip >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/d6db2ca8-defb-4671-98f0-e77cc3a5d0f0%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/d6db2ca8-defb-4671-98f0-e77cc3a5d0f0%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/CAK-y3Cv8y0HxnRxJOcZegWDqPnB5ofWpDvBtUiUcoMNJ3hm22g%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAK-y3Cv8y0HxnRxJOcZegWDqPnB5ofWpDvBtUiUcoMNJ3hm22g%40mail.gmail.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/FD696ED4-F126-43EE-808A-21516804355D%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/FD696ED4-F126-43EE-808A-21516804355D%40gmail.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/CAK-y3CsNhNh5r1em%2BDDfNM1wixisHqEe1Yj9Jkb8vzLZcT_Mjg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAK-y3CsNhNh5r1em%2BDDfNM1wixisHqEe1Yj9Jkb8vzLZcT_Mjg%40mail.gmail.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. 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