Local dependencies, project mode, and folder mode

[JonathanStarup]

folder mode includes arbitrary deps in libs/ folder while project mode does not.

Two issues

• folder mode and project mode disagree
• project mode does not have a way to include non web dependencies
  • I propose to support local url/uri (not libraries) like file://...

[LionelMeli]

Hello Jonathan,

for project mode currently, there is a workaround to include non web dependencies:

• Add in lib/external all the jar files (you can get all the jar files depencies through Maven or Gradle in another project)
• Go to the lib/external and after "generate" the stuff for flix.toml: e.g. in lib/external command line: println ""%s" = "url:https://dummy.org/anonymous.jar\"\n " $(ls -1 *.jar)
• Copy paste in the [jar-dependencies] the result of the command above
  You should have something like:
  [jar-dependencies]
  "foo.jar" = "url:https://dummy.org/anonymous.jar"
  "bar.jar" = "url:https://dummy.org/anonymous.jar"
  etc...
  (the compiler checks if the files mentionned in flix.toml are in lib/external or not. If not Flix tries to download them)

[magnus-madsen]

I would propose to sync how VSCode and flix.toml is handled.

In addition, I would add support for local JARs to flix.toml