Ability to specify the package source

[danielmarbach]

Discussed with @adamralph it would be cool to be able to specify the package source. I think we could restrict ourself to only public sources like Nuget and MyGet.

How would the URI schema look like? @SeanFeldman and I agree that we need to go back to the drawing board to also solve #23

[adamralph]

This would be awesome. The use case is comparing the current release to the current pre-release in myget.

I like the way the comparisons are addressable, but I guess it could get quite messy if you had to have an encoded URL in the URL 😝

I guess one way is to have defined aliases,

e.g. 'nuget' => nuget gallery feed URL, 'myget/myfeed' = myget root URL/myfeed

but it would be nicer, of course, to work against any package source.

[danielmarbach]

@adamralph as soon as we need package feed authentication it gets complicated pretty quickly. I think we need to start small

[SeanFeldman]

+1 for this info @adamralph
Any package requirement can get tricky - private feeds would require authentication.
What we need (discussed with @danielmarbach) is to define what APIComparer will or will not provide.

[adamralph]

Yeah, agreed. No point trying to solve the world straight away. A specific scheme to just support myget would be good initial enhancement.

[andreasohlund]

Side note: this already works for the CLI which is very handy when you want to check your pull/feature branch for diffs against latest build:

https://github.com/ParticularLabs/APIComparer/blob/master/APIComparer/Program.cs#L18

[danielmarbach]

Yeah but the API is the new console and the API doesn’t support it

[andreasohlund]

I said it was a side note :)