dep key items unintended merging

[majidaldo]

#devenv file
name: 'sdf'
dependencies:
  - d1
  - d2
  - notdevenvkey:
    - one
    - two
    - startwith xxx
    - startwith yyy

gets processed to conda devenv --print-full

# generated by conda-devenv, do not modify and do not commit to VCS
dependencies:
- d1
- d2
- notdevenvkey:
  - one
  - startwith xxx,yyy
  - two
name: sdf
environment: {}

i'm not sure if this behavior is by design.

[prusse-martin]

It recursively merge the dicts, that is by design. It has some custom handling for "pip" and "name" though.
Thank you the small example to make clear to issue.
Does this present a problem for your use case?

[majidaldo]

It recursively merge the dicts, that is by design. It has some custom handling for "pip" and "name" though. Thank you the small example to make clear to issue. Does this present a problem for your use case?

yes. i slightly post-process the conda-devenv output. i think conda-devenv should only process what's going to conda and leave the rest as is.

[majidaldo]

It recursively merge the dicts, that is by design. It has some custom handling for "pip" and "name" though. Thank you the small example to make clear to issue. Does this present a problem for your use case?

yes. i slightly post-process the conda-devenv output. i think conda-devenv should only process what's going to conda and leave the rest as is.

for example you can think about installers other than conda or pip like npm. each installer has a spec format that shouldn't be touched by conda-devenv. since you have special treatment for pip, you might as well just generalize it to conda vs non-conda.

[prusse-martin]

The idea was to also merge the specs for other installers.
The custom pip handling affect just some declarations not all.
No version spec from npm can be merged the same as dome by conda-devenv?

[majidaldo]

why would it? each installer has its own way. also, the specs got alphabetically ordered.

related #84

[prusse-martin]

Sorry, almost 2 years ago I did focus on the top part of your example in #84 (comment), or I will mention that the "environment" section is already merged.
When I told "The idea was to also merge the specs for other installers." it should read "The idea was to merge everything possible.".