Can a Pkg.checkout be REQUIRED?

[JeffreySarnoff]

I have a package, ArbFloats, that depends upon the presence of Nemo. The current release version of Nemo does not work with v0.6xx. The current checkout version does. How do I get that built first?

[Tamas_Papp]

Enforcing latest master in REQUIRE

I am wondering if there is a way to request the latest master for a package in REQUIRE. Specifically, I made a PR to a package which has been merged to master, and need it for tests to run, so I put a Pkg.checkout in .travis.yml, but it seems like a hack.

[JeffreySarnoff]

ok – is there no way to accomplish this without REQUIRE using a build script?

[ChrisRackauckas]

@JeffreySarnoff

ok – is there no way to accomplish this without REQUIRE using a build script?

You can but you shouldn’t. It’s fragile to require a master branch and @tkelman likely won’t accept a release that requires master on another package. Just get them (help them) release the next version instead.

[fengyang.wang]

Right; instead of requesting the master branch it’s better to request a specific commit. IIRC that is coming in Pkg3.