Add package dependencies to the repo about repository HOT 6 OPEN

Counter-proposal to the comment by @zenith391:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "didot-window": [ "didot-x11", "didot-glfw" ]
  }
}

Which would allow a package manager to also prompt the user which package to install, but also list available and checked options. Note that this should not be an enforcement, but a hint. You should be able to override the selection anyways

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My proposal is a bit unusual but here is what i propose: in a case where a package depends on another package but not its implementation (for example it might depend on a windowing package, but it might be a glfw or an x11 package), there should be a way for the user to choose which to use. Maybe for those case the dependency package name might be null, for example:

{
  "author": "zenith391",
  "description": "OpenGL module for Didot",
  "git": "https://github.com/zenith391/didot",
  "root_file": "/didot-opengl/graphics.zig",
  "dependencies": {
    "didot-window": null
  },
  "tags": [
    "game",
    "graphics"
  ]
}

When installing that package, the package manager should so something like prompt the user to select a package to install, and the user could type didot-x11, didot-glfw or any other windowing package he wants.

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As it seems people agreed on it, shouldn't this issue start getting implemented?

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As it seems people agreed on it, shouldn't this issue start getting implemented?

True! If you have the time, go ahead, implement it and make a PR! I will happily click merge!

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It seems that current design doesn’t consider versions, which is important for reproducible build

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Yes, but i refuse to do version tracking before Zig 1.0.0, as i consider that wasted energy, as your Zig code might break tomorrow anyways.

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