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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon neovim

External dependencies

Open mjlbach opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

Some dependencies are runtime, some are build time. The specification may want to distinguish these, as the latter could cause the plugin to fail installation.

mjlbach avatar Feb 10 '22 05:02 mjlbach

This guidance should also include what we expect package managers to do about verifying external dependency versions.

wbthomason avatar Feb 10 '22 05:02 wbthomason

It's hard, because we can't enforce the versioning scheme (it could be calver or something-not-semver). I'm not sure what the best generic way to check against versions is. We could allow specifying comparator rules, regex matches on version, etc. Not sure.

mjlbach avatar Feb 10 '22 05:02 mjlbach

Yeah, I'm not sure what we can require that isn't too onerous for plugin managers.

wbthomason avatar Feb 10 '22 06:02 wbthomason

Personally, I think we should defer this and omit it from the initial release.

lewis6991 avatar Feb 10 '22 12:02 lewis6991