Fabrizio Ferrai

This is funny - @thomashoneyman @MonoidMusician do you have any insight on this?

Convo from discord for future breadcrumbing:

> I know very little about the internals so this might be a stupid question, but are the build plans necessary or could they be worked out at runtime by...

@finnhodgkin now that #1261 is merged I pivoted this issue to track slow parsing of the lockfiles.

I had a look at the code that uses the lockfile, and I think we can let go of having a `build_plan` section in the lockfile - which should save...

I have wished for this before, and we don't have it yet because of UX concerns - I couldn't find a satisfactory answer to "what happens when there's no workspace...

> I think having a low max height to search would be reasonable (8?), perhaps with the option to increase it in the package config. > If there's no workspace...

@peterbecich thanks! Assigned - and these are good pointers. In there you'd see if there's a workspace in the current directory, and start recursing up if not, instead of calling...

I think that was supposed to work and broke at some point? It looks like we don't have tests for this (or well, I couldn't find them), and I'd rather...

Sounds good - but to be clear I consider this a bug, in the sense that the README is correct and the implementation is wrong. So I am not going...