Xiu-zhe (Roger) Luo

field alias feature is removed temporarily for the latest version.

Hi Fons! Good timing. I just finished my last paper before graduation. So I'd expect to have some time on software this summer. The best way, I believe, is to...

not really, as you see it's not closed. I currently don't have much time to work on this package, but please feel free to work on a PR if you...

Hi @fonsp thanks for the feedback, this is very helpful! > Documentation for users of my package on how to configure my program I thought about this before, and yes,...

we currently forward some CLI commands to `Pkg`, so `ion update` is for updating packages in current environment. and `julia` is actually a registered package in `General`: https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General/tree/master/J/julia this is...

I don't see why this should be included in this package instead of overloading the option type interface in a separate package?

I'm actually more thinking about something closer to rust's `serde` now - the key value is not directly exposed to the user but instead, a `Serializer` and `Deserializer` object are...

One way to support this is to ask user to overload type_alias for different parametric type. And maybe overload another for parsing it back. Should check StructTypes.jl for this

No, it only appears in `from_toml`, I haven't thought much how this information be propagated into `from_dict`, so if you need to preprocess something you should overload `from_toml`, could you...

Yes, it's ignored by validation, this is a special field to give you access to that https://github.com/Roger-luo/Configurations.jl/blob/0aa33c3e3eb1a1aaef1f8b8f542aa43bf5dd8cf0/src/from_dict.jl#L86