I don't think this is possible. This sounds like a case where PDMats needs a new release. You can implement a release yourself, make a pull request to METADATA and ask Dahua for permission to merge it.
-- John On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Spencer Lyon <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to specify that a package depends on the current master branch > of another package. > > My problem is the following: > > I am developing a package that samples from the MultivariateNormal > distribution in Distributions.jl. > This pacakge calls unwhiten! from PDMats.jl. > unwhiten! tries to access the uplo field of the Cholesky type in > base/lingalg/cholesky.jl > The way this field is accessed was recently changed an PDMats.jl just updated > the unwhiten! method 2 days ago > (https://github.com/JuliaStats/PDMats.jl/commit/53cb7f5a182755e141bed5fb1c9c683d1283d304) > I would like to make my package require the current master branch of > PDMats.jl. I know I can do this manually via Pkg.checkout("PDMats"), but I > don’t want to force users to do this. > > In the REQUIRE file can I specify that I need to “checkout” PDMats? > >
