How to work with development version

[treagod]

Hi!

I wanted to tackle #112. But to confirm that everything is working as expected, I need to create a demo project with the latest dependencies (that is pre-0.4, not 0.3).

How do you do this? I wanted to update the shards.yml to use the main branches of marten and marten-auth, but this throws a dependency error. Another alternative I have in mind is to symlink both projects in the lib/ folder.

I would be happy to hear your solution so I can start working on the problem. This would also be a great addition to the developer documentation.

[ellmetha]

Hey! 👋

It really depends on what you are developing/testing, but usually there are two main ways to do it:

1. You can symlink your local Marten repository as you already mentioned.
2. You can keep the latest stable version of Marten referenced in the shard.yml file but at the same time you can define a shard.override.yml file in which you point to your development version of Marten:

# file: shard.override.yml
dependencies:
  marten:
    path: /path/to/marten

(This capability is also documented in the official shards documentation)

If you use (2) and then run shards install, your project will use the overridden shard instead of the version defined in the shard.yml file.

I also agree that the second solution is something we should probably add to the developer documentation. 🙂