allow imports to be a list of pairs about peru HOT 5 CLOSED

Why is this useful? It seems strange to need two or more copies of a module, and even stranger (not to mention fragile) to depend on the merge order. Do you have a particular use case in mind?

How would the tuples (pairs) be encoded? Seems like it could make peru.yaml more complicated.

imports:
  -
    module: foo
    path: /put/foo/here
  -
    module: foo
    path: /put/foo/here/too

Yuck.

imports:
  -
    - foo
    - /put/foo/here
  -
    - foo
    - /put/foo/here/too

Also yuck.

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I was imagining that it would look like this:

imports:
    - foo: ./path/to/
    - bad: ./path/

So the only difference would be the leading dashes. I'm sure there will eventually be use cases where we want the same module imported more than once. I've wanted it myself in the past for writing tests.

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Right, somehow I hadn't even considered that encoding. Small price for flexibility, and testing is probably a good use case alone.

Is the idea to support both a list of pairs and the dictionary used today?

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That would be the idea. That's similar to what we've done with plugins (which we're going to rip out thank God) and files.

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https://phabricator.buildinspace.com/D60

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