Retire ephemeral packages in favour of scripts
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- Dominant language
- Go
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Description
We are considering removing support for ephemeral packages in favour of scripts.
At the moment packages can't have dependencies on scripts, so we'd have to extend Leeway to allow that.
We should ensure that any script a package depends on has the workdir setting set to packages to ensure they don't modify anything in the source tree (intentional or not)
More context in this internal meeting note.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing Leeway's handling of ephemeral packages, package dependencies, scripts, and the workdir setting; the issue names no files or tests. Read the linked meeting note for the intended design. Done means ephemeral package support is retired, package-to-script dependencies work, and depended-on scripts use workdir: packages without modifying the source tree.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100