for creating one’s own registry one has to specify Versions.toml for each package currently it seems like you have to link versions to concrete git commits via hash, however for development it would be very helpful to link to branches instead. Is this already possible? can this be enabled?

If you dev a package then it only needs the path, not anything else.

true, however I for developing in a shared environment (cross OS, cross Machine, cross user) a registry is useful for sharing in the registry I need to specify versions for things to work at all, even if I don’t have any stable version yet. It would be super natural to instead point the registry …

Thats why you can add by a branch, then $ pkg update will automatically follow that branch. The purpose of the registry is to hold information about releases, not floating targets like a branch.

Yea, that is basically Automatically detect unregistered dependencies by 00vareladavid · Pull Request #1088 · JuliaLang/Pkg.jl · GitHub . Another thing that I have used a bit is to include the package in a registry, without any versions. That at least allows for e.g. $ pkg add UnregisteredPackage#br…

Okay, now that https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1005 is going to be solved things look different. Still there is the following problem: when relying on a manifest file to share the dependencies, it should stay somehow fixed for every package still I want to develop certain packages, hen…

I tried having a registry without any versions, however this failed immediately for adding packages which have other private packages in their dependencies (something like “no suitable version could be found for dependency …” was raised, which at least makes sense as no version is given) EDIT: this…

Can Versions.toml point to git branch instead of fixed git commit?

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StefanKarpinski January 16, 2020, 3:21pm 5

Might be cool to allow instantiating a manifest with dev’d packages and let it automatically check them out on the indicated branch. Agree that putting branches in the registry is not the way to go.

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