dub + local dependencies

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 15:34:36 UTC, Jolly James wrote:
>> WARNING: A deprecated branch based version specification is 
>> used for the dependency xyz.
>> Please use numbered versions instead.
>> Also note that you can still use the dub.selections.json file 
>> to override a certain dependency to use a branch instead.
>
>
> The problem is: xyz is a local package and therefor I don't 
> know how to specify its version. So in the dub.json of the 
> package abc requiring xyz is written:
>
>
>>	"dependencies": {
>>		"xyz": "~master"
>>	},
>
>
> Is there a cleaner solution?

You have a few options:

* Use a path dependency:
     "dependencies": {
          "xyz": { "path": "path/to/xyz" }
     }

* Use add-local with a version on the command line:
     dub add-local path/to/xyz  0.0.1

* Use add-local or add-paths and specify a version as described 
by `dub add-paths -h`