Safeguards for developing within package repository?

[timholy]

The tail end of this documentation section describes a slightly scary scenario. Would such an error break the ability to do Pkg.update()?

When people are developing from within .julia, it would be helpful to have a package manager command that:

1. pushes any package commits to the public repository
2. upon success of step 1, bumps the version and pushes/pullrequests the change

On pull requests for version bumps, would it be possible to automatically check whether the given commit is publicly-accessible?

[timholy]

I see that this possibility was already anticipated (line 225 of pkg.jl). However, if I'm interpreting this correctly, it will bring the entire resolve() process to a halt, and users will be stuck not being able to update their packages.

[pao]

See also #1668 (comment) for mention of .publish() (similar to your proposed command).

[timholy]

I like the name "publish". I see it's nontrivial, however. Thanks for the link.

[vtjnash]

@StefanKarpinski bump

[jiahao]

Closing, in light of the new Pkg.publish() method.