Refactor to remove the cache/cloning repos to calculate the dependency graph

nikolas-burkoff commented 2 years ago

Follow on issue from #35 see that issue for details of APIs to extract the information out of github/gitlab without needing to clone the repo.

Dispatch the extraction of yaml/DESC files by host - maybe ask gitlab to add tags to graphQL schema (and fix here )
store DESCRIPTION and yaml info inside the dependency_structure object
Remove local package option BUT ensure that current repo is still installed from disk (e.g. for gitlab automation)
Add update method to dependency_structure
Use remotes or equivalent to install packages
Update tests (including e2e) and docs
Make sure check_downstream, build_check_install, ... can still work

waddella commented 2 years ago

I suggest to store the description and yaml files with desc::description() and yaml::read_yaml() type of objects, respectably.

nikolas-burkoff commented 2 years ago

Should we use this opportunity to move to gert from git2r as well?

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