URLs for dependencies?

[mgutz]

I do mostly node development on Mac and Linux. Will URLs be supported for dependencies a la npm in package.json?

// get from the usual location (semver)
"My.Lib": "~4.0.0.0"

// get and build from git
"My.Lib": "git://github.com/mgutz/My.Lib#HEAD"

// get from local hacking directory
"My.Lib": "file://home/mgutz/src/My.Lib"

[davidfowl]

doubtful we're going to support this for specific dependencies. We might use it as a way to get source for one or more dependencies but not per dependency. NodeJS has this advantage where a repository maps 1 to 1 with a project/package. Take a look at the .NET repositories out there, they are solution based and have multiple projects within them and it doesn't translate to this world.

That said, with some strong conventions, we can come up some an experience that will work great for .NET projects but I still think it'll be more similar to what I mentioned that what npm has.