feature: control engine resolution order on `_quarto.yml`
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cscheid commented
(cc @MichaelHatherly @jkrumbiegel)
With the julia
engine offering first-class support for Julia, we started running into issues of "engine priority": when two engines provide overlapping support, which should win? Currently the priority is hard-coded, which makes configuration awkward for projects that mostly use the julia
engine.
An engines
key in _quarto.yml
could take an array of strings and control the resolution order. For example,
engines:
- julia
- jupyter
- knitr
This would allow the julia
engine to take higher priority than jupyter
in projects where that is the desired outcome. Because we have a default ordering, this wouldn't break backwards compatibility either.