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Custom package's unity package dependency is not being installed

Discussion in 'Package Manager' started by senfield, May 9, 2019.

  1. senfield

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    So I have a custom package with "com.unity.addressables": "0.7.5-preview" as a dependency and it isn't installing the addressables package when it installs my custom package. I thought it was supposed to be as simple as adding that line to the dependencies section and then when my package is installed the unity one would be as well... doesn't this normally work? e.g. this kind of package.json:
    Code (JavaScript):
    1. {
    2.     "name": "com.me.assetprojectkit",
    3.     "displayName": "Asset Project Kit",
    4.     "version": "0.1.1",
    5.     "unity": "2018.3",
    6.     "description": "does things",
    7.     "keywords": ["asset", "mods", "bundle", "assetproject"],
    8.     "category": "",
    9.     "dependencies": {
    10.         "com.unity.addressables": "0.7.5-preview"
    11.     },
    12.   "repository": {
    13.     "type": "git",
    14.     "url": "myprivateurl"
    15.   }
    16. }
     
    Last edited: May 9, 2019
    senfield, May 9, 2019
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  2. maximeb_unity

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    maximeb_unity, May 9, 2019
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  3. senfield

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    Thanks, I got it figured out! The problem was actually that I did not have the addressables assemblies listed properly in my asmdef. The extra confusion stemmed from dependencies such as addressables NOT showing up in the project's packages list even though they actually are present. So it was hard to tell that it actually had installed so I thought the problem was with the package manager and didn't immediately think to look in the asmdef.
     
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  4. one_one

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    Are local dependencies supported now? Because I'm on the latest package manager version and they don't seem to be.
     
    one_one, May 21, 2019
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  5. maximeb_unity

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    Hi @christoph_r,

    Local dependencies for projects are supported, but packages cannot declare local dependencies at this time.

    Did you add a local dependency through the UI or dit you manually edit your manifest.json file? If you did it with a manual edit, make sure you have the right syntax: "file:<path>". On Windows, you need to either use forward-slashes ("/") or double back-slashes ("\\"). You can use either an absolute path or a relative path (relative to the Packages directory of your project).
     
    maximeb_unity, May 21, 2019
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  6. one_one

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    Bummer, was getting my hopes up. Is that something that might happen soon™ or is it likely a couple of months before that will be tackled? Because that seems like the easiest way to handle custom packages for modularizing up our codebase (to entirely replace Projeny.)
     
    one_one, May 21, 2019
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  7. maximeb_unity

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    Unfortunately I cannot provide an ETA, but loosening restrictions on package dependencies is definitely something we have on our roadmap, at least for "custom" packages (that is, packages that are not fetched from the main Unity registry).
     
    maximeb_unity, May 22, 2019
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