Add optional devDependencies field in vessel.dhall#61
Add optional devDependencies field in vessel.dhall#61rvanasa wants to merge 5 commits intocaffeinelabs:mainfrom
devDependencies field in vessel.dhall#61Conversation
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A few points of discussion: By switching to a single
Vessel originally used strict type checking for Dhall files, which means that this PR (and any other change to
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Bummer.
I'm supportive of that.
I'm also supportive of these other distribution methods. I think dfx (or whatever packages the compiler in each context) makes the most sense to me. It never made sense to me to separate the package manager and the compiler as much as they've been separated thus far. |
This PR introduces the ability to specify local "dev dependencies" (well-known from Cargo and npm) for a Vessel package.
Here's a concise explanation of dev dependencies from Rust by Example:
As a response to caffeinelabs/vscode-motoko#66, this feature would provide a simpler alternative to the
./vessel.dhall+test/vessel.dhallpattern used in various official and community repositories (e.g. motoko-base). The goal is to improve readability for both humans and development tools (especially IDE integrations).This PR also make it possible to omit fields in a
vessel.dhallmanifest. For instance, it's no longer necessary to write verbose default values such ascompiler = None Text, which I expect will be appreciated by the community. :)