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Requirement overriding

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#2,899 opened on Apr 5, 2024

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Description

I think it would be a useful addition to the language to have a mechanism by which requirements which conflict can be ignored.

I'm not sure the best way to go about this. Node has the concept of overrides (https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/configuring-npm/package-json#overrides) which strikes me as a possible solution.

I think in my case I just wanted the build to override a single include - gleescript required filepath >=0.1-<1.0 but filepath 1.0 was needed for simplifile >=1.6.

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Research direction
Investigate how to implement dependency override functionality in Gleam's build tool, similar to npm overrides. Look at the existing dependency resolution code and consider how to allow users to specify version overrides for specific packages.
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rust
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Gleam languagedependency management
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