Why doesn't the Elixir core team accept `mix deps.add` proposals?

[Benjamin-Philip]

@stefanchrobot

I think the only way to reliably make this work is to introduce a plain data file - so something like deps.json. Everything else has the issue of having the need to evaluate the code. Not sure what are the exact requirements of .formatter.exs are, but it seems you can throw an if into that file and it just works. Same goes for mix.exs and a potential deps.exs.

Yeah. I am in favour of having a deps.json but it’s quite a major change (in my opinion), and I am not sure if it will be accepted till the next major release; i.e 2.0.