[Dependency] Add a field to filter platforms where a dependency is used

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[Dependency] Add a field to filter platforms where a dependency is used

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 1 comments

I think it could be useful to have a field to the Dependency struct to filter the platforms where the package will actually be loaded. We can't have platform-dependent dependencies because Pkg doesn't allow it, but we can at least avoid loading them if not necessary, even if they are mostly no-op. For example, GTK3_jll on macOS and Windows could not load the whole X11 stack, and NativeFileDialog_jll could not load GTK3_jll on the same platforms.

CC: @fingolfin

Answer 1 · 2021-12-18T21:58:59.000Z

Fixed by #176 and JuliaPackaging/BinaryBuilder.jl#1129