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authorFred Hebert <mononcqc@ferd.ca>2017-08-05 10:35:51 -0400
committerFred Hebert <mononcqc@ferd.ca>2017-08-05 11:04:58 -0400
commit1c96de5e10bd51ba4da9a89c087c191a8c7cd8c5 (patch)
tree9f1dac55ec397b030eefe45b7d97f82f7b96161c /src/rebar_prv_new.erl
parent330baef58fa02c8cddc31c5c373fc5bda30f11dd (diff)
Allow top-level apps to take precedence over deps
The use case has been described in issue #1478 where a local application can exist while being declared as a dependency as well. This allows, for example, to work on a release where all applications may require to be published independently, or to provide some form of 'vendoring' with a local app. The fix is done by decoupling the dependency source resolution form the dependency parsing. The reason for this being that the discovery phase needs to parse apps for their top-level deps, and dep installation needs to resolve the packages with accuracy. In the current implementation, both code paths call to the same function. This patch splits up the precise discovery and makes it happen *only* when installing dependencies, and only if a top-level app does not already define the application needing resolving. One weakness of this fix is that it necessarily breaks cycle detection in dependencies that involve a root application depending on itself since its own version as a dep will not be expanded. There appears to be no possible way to prevent this, but should be rare enough to be worth the tradeoff for the common case.
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