Is it possible/feasible1 to have multiple shards in a single git repo? I’m currently working on a shard to support OpenTelemetry , which a bit different from other instrumentation frameworks I’ve used in that it prescribes separating the gathering of telemetry (the “API”, used by libraries) from the …

Ha, I actually been working on the PHP SDK and have been thinking about how to best handle this in Crystal. Tl;dr, no, Shards doesn’t support monorepos, see Added possibility to install submodules of a git repository or local repository by Thellior · Pull Request #238 · crystal-lang/shards · GitHub .…

Related: Added possibility to install submodules of a git repository or local repository by Thellior · Pull Request #238 · crystal-lang/shards · GitHub

[image] Blacksmoke16: Just maintain separate repos I considered this but I intend to donate it to the OpenTelemetry project (at the request of a member of the governance committee, and I like that idea for several reasons) and they seem to prefer the monorepo approach whenever possible. […

With shards, it’s impossible to have different shards with different dependencies in a single repository. While I don’t think there’s a chance to support monorepos with multiple shards, it might be an option to allow specifying optional dependency groups (bundler has this, for example). Then you co…

The standard Python package manager, Pip, lets you install from specify an optional subdirectory where top level of the package is located within a Git repository. Maybe a similar interface can be adapted for Crystal? It can infer the name of the package from the meta-data once the repository is c…

shard.yml specifies the current version as well. But that’s not very useful for discovering a versions list (which is essential for dependency resolution). You would have to look at the content of shard.yml in every commit in order to find out which versions are available. Git tags make this really …

Multiple shards in a single git repo?

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Multiple shards in a single git repo?

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