Workspace dev-dependencies

[milancermak]

Problem

This might be a bug or a feature request 😁 It seems Scarb does not take workspace dev-dependencies into account.

In Alexandria, we have a setup where cario_test is supposed to be inherited from the workspace, as a dev-dependency, but there's no clean way how to do it. Currently, running tests emits a warning. When creating a [workspace.dev-dependencies] section in the main Scarb.toml, it emits an error.

Steps

1. Clone the latest version of Alexandria - it has just been updated to 2.7.0
2. cd alexandria/packages/linalg
3. scarb test

You should see this warning in the console:

scarb test
     Running cairo-test alexandria_linalg
warn: `cairo_test` plugin not found
please add the following snippet to your Scarb.toml manifest:
\```
[dev-dependencies]
cairo_test = "2.7.0"
\```

Notice that linalg/Scarb.toml has

[dev-dependencies]
cairo_test.workspace = true

but the main workspace Scarb.toml has cairo_test only in [workspace.dependencies]. This setup works, but results in the warning mentioned above.

5. Next, edit the main Scarb.toml - remove cairo_test from [workspace.dependencies] and put it into [workspace.dev-dependencies], so that it can be inherited in the linalg package (at least that's how I think it ought to work):

[workspace.dependencies]
starknet = "2.7.0"
# cairo_test = "2.7.0"

[workspace.dev-dependencies]
cairo_test = "2.7.0"

6. Now, running scarb test results in this error:

error: failed to parse manifest at: /Users/m/projects/tmp/alexandria/Scarb.toml

Caused by:
    0: error inheriting `cairo_test` from workspace root manifest's `workspace.dependencies.cairo_test`
    1: dependency `cairo_test` not found in workspace

Possible Solution(s)

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Notes

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Version

scarb 2.7.0 (e9a2b8716 2024-08-01)
cairo: 2.7.0 (https://crates.io/crates/cairo-lang-compiler/2.7.0)
sierra: 1.6.0