Ability to install v modules from local checkout of a repository

[brandonpille]

Describe the feature

It would be amazing to be able to install the modules of a repository that you cloned (and also altered in a branch for example). I encouter many times where I'm working on a repository (making changes to code or adding new modules) and I quickly want to test it. I first have to create a symlink to ~/.vmodules for it to work.

Use Case

See description

Proposed Solution

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Other Information

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Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

Version used

0.3.2

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

OS: linux, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Processor: 16 cpus, 64bit, little endian, 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz
CC version: cc (Ubuntu 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.3.0

getwd: /work/crystallib/rmbproxy
vmodules: /home/brandon/.vmodules
vroot: /work/v
vexe: /work/v/v
vexe mtime: 2023-01-06 10:15:19
is vroot writable: true
is vmodules writable: true
V full version: V 0.3.2 f0a252d.3b594d6

Git version: git version 2.34.1
Git vroot status: weekly.2023.01-26-g3b594d6c (31 commit(s) behind V master)
.git/config present: true
thirdparty/tcc status: thirdparty-linux-amd64 12f392c3

[JalonSolov]

There are 2 other ways to achieve this already...

1. Have a v.mod file in the root of your project, and clone the module to a subdir of your project. V will see it as a "local module" due to the v.mod file anchor.

2. Set the VMODULES env var to point to the clone location as well as .vmodules (so it can find everything).

[aynh]

It's also possible to install a local git repository, but you need to use absolute path. For example v install --git $PWD will install the git repository in current working directory.

[MatejMagat305]

There are 2 other ways to achieve this already...

1. Have a `v.mod` file in the root of your project, and clone the module to a subdir of your project.  V will see it as a "local module" due to the `v.mod` file anchor.

2. Set the `VMODULES` env var to point to the clone location as well as `.vmodules` (so it can find everything).

I think that is excelent tool and it is enuoght for vlang ...