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?
> 
> ​

Reply via email to