How to test external extension against Theia with local modifications

[simark]

I am trying to work on the package @theia/cpp-debug, in theia-cpp-extension, which depends on @theia/debug in the main Theia repo. I need to make local modifications to the @theia/debug package and test the external extension against that. How would you do this?

[simark]

I tried changing the dependency of cpp-debug on debug to point to my local build:

 23   "dependencies": {
 24     "@theia/core": "next",
 25     "@theia/debug": "link:/home/emaisin/src/theia/packages/debug",
 26     "cdt-gdb-adapter": "link:/home/emaisin/src/cdt-gdb-adapter"
 27   },

However, this leads to multiple versions of @theia/core to be pulled, so it doesn't work.

[marcdumais-work]

I think we could work-around the issue by setting your local development @theia/debug to the specific next version that the other @theia packages will resolve-to. ATM this is : 0.4.0-next.74b3528e, but it changes every time something merged to master and successfully published.

latest info:
npm info @theia/debug