Idea for local override

[metakeule]

Local Override: Stable allows local bundles that are just [relative] path entries in the bundle, resulting in canonicalized paths in the PONYPATH. How can we do this while also tracking a remote location to allow local development of a published library? That is: use remote, fork remote and work on local, commit fork to remote and go back to using that. This could be a simple matter of tracking the local location as a temporary override. Or, we just let the developer update (remove+add) the bundle with the alternate locator. Or, use a more general alias technique like go mod?

My idea: Use a general alias technique in a separate file (e.g. local-overrides.json). This way the developer(s) could have this file but do not check it into the repo. So the users cloning the repo won't have the overrides (but could add them easily if needed).

[SeanTAllen]

@metakeule what is the quoted text from?

[metakeule]

@SeanTAllen
https://github.com/ponylang/corral/blob/master/doc/questions_notes.md