dub.selections.json & optional dependencies: How's it work?

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 19:37:41 UTC 2023


On 2/24/23 2:01 PM, jmh530 wrote:
> I'm looking at the dub package format [1] about optional dependencies 
> and it says:
> 
> "With this set to true, the dependency will only be used if explicitly 
> selected in dub.selections.json. If omitted, this attribute defaults to 
> false."
> 
> And it occurs to me that I don't know anything about how 
> dub.selections.json works.

Let's say you have dependency A, which has an *optional* dependency on B.

In your project, if you depend on A, but don't explicitly depend on B, 
then A will be built without B as a dependency.

If you have a dependency on A *and* B, then B's optional dependency will 
kick in, and participate in the selection of it's version.

So for instance, you could depend on B version 1 or higher, and the 
optional dependency could be on v1.5 or higher, it will select the 
highest version of 1.5

dub.selections.json only applies to the primary project. So the decision 
on which versions of which dependencies to use is decided by the whole tree.

-Steve


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