# haxe-ui
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bitter-family-72722
09/16/2019, 9:38 PMonce you disable dev it goes back to the previously used version - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:39 PMwell, you can end up with both and it doesnt work out well till you delete the other - b
bitter-family-72722
09/16/2019, 9:39 PMthat's what I mean, it's intended that you end up with both - b
bitter-family-72722
09/16/2019, 9:40 PMotherwise it wouldn't remember what the version was before runninghaxelib dev - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:40 PMJens, im not trying to sell you on an alternative. - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:40 PMI saying it doesnt work, for the most part - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:41 PMhaxelib is a mess, it really is, look at the source (as im sure you have) its spagetti - b
bitter-family-72722
09/16/2019, 9:42 PMwell, it works as designed (the dev feature at least).. the design is not necessarily great though 🙂 - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:42 PMsure - b
bitter-family-72722
09/16/2019, 9:42 PMI don't really care so much about the source as a user - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:43 PMim saying, my "use" is "haxelib dev xyz" and then i never touch it - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:44 PMi have a server. the same server that has the "playground" on haxeui.org - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:44 PMi made the mistake of using haxelib git - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:45 PMit died, i dunno why, how, or when - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:45 PMso i haxelib "dev"'d it - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:46 PMi presume you have seen the haxelib client code? - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:46 PMits... ... ... strange - b
bitter-family-72722
09/16/2019, 9:46 PMI wonder if you'd say the same about lix sources 😄 - b
bitter-family-72722
09/16/2019, 9:47 PMbtw, there's no fundamental difference between
andhaxelib dev
, the latter just does the clone for youhaxelib git - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:47 PMi might say the same about tink, or c.ui - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:47 PMthere is though, - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:48 PMone is running a process - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:48 PMyou are assuming that process is "fine" - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:48 PMhaxelib git defo failed, a number of times - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:49 PMthen i edit the .dev file (or created it, i dont remember) - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:49 PMspin it up and its all fine - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:50 PMand the code in haxelib is awful, Juraj would agree - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:52 PMi tried to write an alternative "haxelib" a while back - b
bright-gpu-74537
09/16/2019, 9:52 PM2 weeks to understand, 1 day to dismiss. - b
bitter-family-72722
09/16/2019, 9:53 PMhttps://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.pngâ–¾