Clojurians Log v2
tools-deps
is it the case that one can't refer to aliases of dependencies in ancestor deps.edn ? i.e. all dependent dependencies must be included in their :deps for an ancestor to use them. In other words, :aliases are only for a given library, not for anything using that library.
@alexmiller Hi Alex! The https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/TDEPS-116 had no activity for years now and not even versioned as a “Backlog”. It would be nice to see some activity there, otherwise it looks like something abandoned or simply overlooked.
I just stumbled upon this very same old tools.deps issue myself with a Polylith workspace recently, when I decided to factor out a few sub-projects into Polylith workspaces of their own. But, since poly has a convention to keep all dev-time dependencies under the :dev alias, things didn’t click (quite obviously), so I had to duplicate them under the :deps key.
I’m now thinking about patching the tools.deps and using a patched version locally solely for this project.
Correct, aliases are not transitive
You can vote for this here though https://ask.clojure.org/index.php/7843/allow-specifying-aliases-coordinates-that-point-projects?show=7843#q7843
wouldn't that imply that aliases would need to be namespaced ?
oh sorry no - the aliases would be under each dependency ok
This is a thing I am interested in doing, will just need some serious thought about all the implications