[SR-105] Allow test-only dependencies for package manager

[swift-ci]

Previous ID	SR-105
Radar	None
Original Reporter	nickygerritsen (JIRA User)
Type	Improvement
Status	Resolved
Resolution	Done

Additional Detail from JIRA

Votes	0
Component/s	Package Manager
Labels	Improvement
Assignee	kkoval (JIRA)
Priority	Medium

md5: 2125813310b0448543d7d85f6e0a4904

Issue Description:

The Swift Package Manager is great and I expect it will be widely used in the future.

However one thing I am missing is that it would be nice to somehow have dependencies that only matter during testing.

For example if I want to use Quick/Nimble, it does not make any sense to have them as a dependency for my package, but only when testing.

Carthage for example solves this using "private" dependencies. Perhaps something similar can be done in the Swift Package Manager? For example a

[mxcl]

Understood and agreed.

[swift-ci]

Comment by Kostiantyn Koval (JIRA)

Can I take this task and make PR, is that ok Max?

[mxcl]

I figure this will be part of implementing our testing proposal.

Then test targets will be able to specify dependencies that are package.

I don't think it currently is in the testing proposal though, so we should fix that first.

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Comment by Kostiantyn Koval (JIRA)

I did some work here #74 already. Was to excited )))

[mxcl]

Merged.