Hi guys, I'd like to suggest a feature and may be implement it. I've found somebody proposed this feature earlier, but it was a long time ago and there was not a single reply to it. So I'd try one more time for that poor guy and for me.
When you develop elixir project and adding new dependencies to the project, you always have to find needed package onlline, find out it's latest version number and put it in your mix.exs dependencies for yourself. What could be helpful is some equivalent of a npm install --save command from nodejs world. It would be like mix deps.install package_name What this command has to do is just 1. check if hex is installed, propose to install it if it is not, 2. get the hex package info, parse its version, 3. put it in mix.exs file (with some conventional semantic versioning pattern like "~> x.y") 4. and call mix deps.get—thats it! It probably would not put the dependency in OTP applications to start list, but still it is much easier way of installing dependencies. I guess there is some conventional reasons to not implement such way of installing new dependencies, but it's not obvious for me and many other people why there is no such option. Thanks! Will be glad to have some feedback. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/9daf03ef-a9a6-44d2-b7d5-68c345b42d76%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
