The xPack devDependencies definitions

The devDependencies definitions is similar to the npm definition, but lists the xpm definitions required during the development of the current package.

When the xpm install is invoked in a project folder, all packages listed in xpack.devDependencies are also installed in the local project xpacks folder, and symbolic links (or forwarders/shims on windows) to all executables are created in xpacks/.bin.

No recursive search is performed.

When installing binary packages into an xpm project, they are also added to the devDependencies list, in the extended format.

Example:

Extended format development dependency

  "xpack": {
    "minimumXpmRequired": "0.19.4",
    "devDependencies": {
      "@xpack-dev-tools/cmake": {
        "specifier": "3.28.6-1.1",
        "local": "link",
        "platforms": "all"
      }
    }
  }