pkg.json client specification
Work-in-progress: These guideliens are subject to change.
pkg.json clients…
Fetching dependencies
- MUST be able to fetch and parse
pkg.json files
- MUST be able to use
git to clone dependencies and query git repo info
- MUST be able to fetch tagged commits for specified package versions
- MUST be able to check for updated
pkg.json files
Resolving dependencies
- MUST be able to check the current version of
Neovim and warn on incompatibility
- MUST be able to fetch and manage the specified versions of dependencies transitively: if dependencies have
pkg.json, read it and process it, recursively.
- MUST either be able to solve for compatible versions of dependency packages across all dependency relationships, or warn users if using a potentially inconsistent version resolution strategy (e.g. picking the first specified version of a dependency).
- MAY remove dependencies when they are no longer required (transitively) by any user-specified packages