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Ability to install package from github or smth similar

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reviewing how spago currently accepts package dependencies and compare that with the requested Bower-style user/packagename#hash syntax. The issue does not name an implementation file or test; done would mean installing a package from GitHub at a specified revision, with the supported behavior documented and tested.

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Description

RFC

Hello! In bower I have some ability like installing package from github.
For example: bower i user/packagename#hash

Will be nice to have this approach in spago

Dominant language
PureScript
Stars
831
Forks
138
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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