Release request: 5.3 beta version

[libitx]

I know the 5.3 branch is in development, but would it be possible to release a package in it's current state?

I am planning to release an Elixir library that depends on luerl, however mix requires all dependencies to be mix packages (as opposed to pointing to the github repo).

[rvirding]

How do you mean? In the master branch?

[libitx]

I can't publish a hex package that depends on a GitHub branch - it can only depend on published hex packages.

Therefore I have to publish the package depending on version 0.4, and then tell my users to override the dependency in their mix.exs to use your development branch:

eg:

def deps do
  [
    {:my_package, "~> 0.1.0"},
    {:luerl, github: "rvirding/luerl", branch: "develop", override: true}
  ]
end

It's all extra friction and it would just be helpful if my package could be published depending on luerl version 0.5.0-beta or whatever.

[rvirding]

@libitx Sorry I missed you last reply here. Would it be enough for me to create a tag 0.5.0-beta which points in to a branch, or does it have to be on the main branch?

Sorry for my github ignorance here.