[erlang-questions] rebar3 dependencies

[Fred Hebert]

On 03/19, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
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>What do you think about it? Can we right now hooks the way the 
>dependency is retrieved? Or do we need to provide some kind of custom 
>dep resource [1] that would proxy each deps?

http://www.rebar3.org/docs/configuration#section-hookable-points-in-providers

Currently those are the only hookable providers. Either we'd need to add 
hookable providers [1], or you could use aliases:

http://www.rebar3.org/docs/using-available-plugins#alias

Or run your build as hooks of your vendoring provider.

>Seem like right now that _checkouts is an hack
>and something like it can't be done externally.

It is. The plugin is a better solution.

[1] probably 
https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/blob/master/src/rebar_app_discover.erl