How do I handle crate and package name mismatches in REPL? about evcxr HOT 3 CLOSED

The issue seems to be that add_extern_crate() in eval_context.rs automatically uses the normalized package name as the crate name. It's called by process_command() from command_context.rs — naively, the syntax for :dep could be extended to allow specifying separate package and crate names.

OTOH, extern crate goes away in the 2018 edition, and I have no idea how this might interact with that.

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As I simple workaround, :dep prettytable-rs = "*" may still fail with can't find crate for prettytable_rs, yet add the dependency, allowing further explicit extern crate prettytable; to succeed (maybe also after first failing to find a package).

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Thanks for the report, I hadn't realised that crates could use a different name for the library. This looks like a duplicate of #15, so lets continue discussion there...

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