Hey Vitaly The dependency file for mix is an Elixir program rather than just a simple JSON file. There's no way reliably and safely programatically modify the mix.exs file as a result.
Cheers, Louis On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 at 22:17 Vitaly Shvedchenko < vitaly.shvedche...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/9daf03ef-a9a6-44d2-b7d5-68c345b42d76%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CABu8xFAmKrBVsFNtEtzocY0pXCeSzFa7epxP7Fm0VdFVg7x1nA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
