UI for editing library dependency lists (for library creators)

[Turgut Guneysu]

It is only possible to add new library names, but not edit existing one.

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[John Maloney]

I think this problem could be solved if we could delete dependencies. That would allow the user to delete dependencies they didn’t want then add the ones they wanted. Bernat had a way to do that via drag-drop but (a) it wasn’t obvious that it was possible and (b) we lost that code in the transition to the new morphic.

[Bernat Romagosa]

It’s totally possible to remove dependencies! Just drag them out of the library dialog

[John Maloney]

Unfortunately, that no longer works. The mechanism broke when we switched to the new morphic and I removed the code for it. However, I’d wanted to replace the drag-drop mechanism with a more explicit, easily discoverable UI because people (including me and Turgut) couldn’t easily remember how to add and remove dependencies. One possible UI would be little + and - buttons. The + button would let you select a dependency to add from a menu of the libraries in your project. The - button would let you select dependency to delete.

[Bernat Romagosa]

I just tried it on the latest dev version and it totally worked for me. Open the Library information dialog (right click on the lib name, select “library Information”), drag out a dependency out of the dialog, press save, and re-export the library.

The same goes for adding deps. The + button still works.

[John Maloney]

Cool! I thought I’d broken it! The add operation clear but deleting by dragging is not obvious. I’d still go for a - button.