Support subcollections in collection
field in info.rkt
#4901
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feature request
Feature Request
package system
Related to the package system (either raco pkg or the legacy PLaneT system) or similar tooling
Currently, the
collection
field needs to be set to a top level collection or tomulti
. In either case, adding modules likemy-lib/a/b/c
andmy-lib/a/b/d
require creating a folder structure resembling this in the source repo:... even if these are the only modules provided by the package. That is, the source repo must introduce the entire collection path hierarchy to the directory structure of the repo even when the higher levels are empty.
It could be preferable to be able to specify a subcollection path in info.rkt, like:
And then the repo could have the structure:
Or, as the top level is hopeless, something like:
Examples: Many repos introduce a
tests
subfolder in what is already designated as atest
package containing only tests. See Megaparsack, Marionette, Pict, Qi.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: