Ability to install package from github or smth similar

[xgrommx]

Hello! In bower I have some ability like installing package from github. For example: bower i user/packagename#hash

Will be nice to have this approach in spago

[elliotdavies]

@xgrommx Do you mean that you'd like to install a package from Github that isn't available in the package set already? If so you can add the package to your packages.dhall as described here - does that do what you want?

[xgrommx]

@elliotdavies I mean that when I have my purescript code on github and I want to install it without publishing to spago packages.

[JordanMartinez]

Adding your package to your local projects packages.dhall file doesn't require you to add it to the package set that spago uses.

[xgrommx]

@JordanMartinez okay what if I want add several packages?

[JordanMartinez]

You just do it multiple times (example)

[JordanMartinez]

Or, if you want to override something... example

[f-f]

@xgrommx did the above suggestions work for you?

As a sidenote, I wondered many times if it would make sense to add a command line helper to add/override packages, something like spago install https://github.com/slamdata/purescript-aff.git#master?

[Benjmhart]

@f-f I think this would be particularly helpful for identifying and adding the dependencies of the requested package, as using an override (at least the last time I attempted to use an override) requires identifying the dependencies of the override package manually.

I am very much in favor of such a command line helper.

[JamieBallingall]

I like the idea of a command line helper but I think we should be aware that it takes us in the direction of a full set of commands to view and edit packages.dhall from the command line. So we probably end up with spago ls overrides, spago ls additions, spago remove https://github.com/slamdata/purescript-aff.git#master and so forth.

That would be lovely -- I would prefer it to editing packages.dhall. But it may be a chunk of work and I think if we start down that path we should have our eyes open.