The larger question I want to ask is What is the way to get dependency information from outside elixir.
Use case for build tools wanting to limit network access and encourage reproducibiliy. For example if there was a way to find out what the dependencies are and how to fetch them, this job could be done outside of mix. A tool with a global store could keep deduplicated version of the dependencies and only fetched the ones that changed. Mix does that already of course, but it's based on an using it's own way to store dependencies. Current barriers. The mix.lock file format is undocumented and subject to change at any time. Smaller question: are there plans regarding the format? Changes? How stable is the current format? Potential solution Would an api from the cli make sense? Something like mix deps.list outputting some json format maybe? (note this idea is not mine and i'm not sure the person having it wants to be cited) -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/a70d41f4-db7c-4958-829b-2d0810266e72n%40googlegroups.com.
