Issues

• Installation and cache path docs disagree with Makefile and config.cr

  crystal-lang/shards#745 · Filter by author renich opened on Nov 6, 2026

• shard.override.yml rejects empty dependencies

  kind:bug
  Bug

  crystal-lang/shards#744 · Filter by author renich opened on Nov 6, 2026

• shards lock keeps removed dependencies in shard.lock

  kind:bug
  Bug

  crystal-lang/shards#743 · Filter by author renich opened on Nov 6, 2026

• [RFC] Optional Dependencies

  kind:featurestatus:discussion
  crystal-lang/shards#735 · Filter by author Blacksmoke16 opened on Oct 12, 2026
  7

• Path resolver creates symlinks with absolute paths

  Feature

  crystal-lang/shards#720 · Filter by author straight-shoota opened on Aug 14, 2026

• shards install silently allows version mismatch in lib/ and fails to replace incorrect code

  kind:question
  crystal-lang/shards#706 · Filter by author sbsoftware opened on Mar 4, 2026
  13

• Postinstall scripts are security liabilities

  kind:featuresecuritystatus:discussion
  crystal-lang/shards#700 · Filter by author ysbaddaden opened on Feb 17, 2026
  24

• Shards dependency does not accept a specific commit when a version is required too

  kind:featurestatus:discussion
  crystal-lang/shards#683 · Filter by author BigBoyBarney opened on Aug 1, 2025
  3

• Recursive symlinks

  platform:windowsstatus:discussion
  crystal-lang/shards#681 · Filter by author straight-shoota opened on Jul 22, 2025

• [feature request] add shards spec to run crystal spec -O1 "$@"

  kind:feature
  crystal-lang/shards#679 · Filter by author zw963 opened on May 23, 2025
  3

• [Feature Request] Add shards targets to show all defined targets in shard.yml.

  crystal-lang/shards#677 · Filter by author zw963 opened on May 20, 2025
  1

• Race Condition Between Dependencies and Their Subdependencies on Update

  kind:bug
  Bug

  crystal-lang/shards#675 · Filter by author miry opened on May 19, 2025
  15

• Override for development_dependencies

  kind:feature
  crystal-lang/shards#655 · Filter by author jwoertink opened on Nov 3, 2024
  5

• MinGW-w64 / MSYS2 support

  platform:windows
  crystal-lang/shards#650 · Filter by author HertzDevil opened on Oct 24, 2024
  4

• git resolver error on windows with space in username

  crystal-lang/shards#648 · Filter by author dsisnero opened on Oct 15, 2024
  1

• Monorepos: multiple shards per repository

  kind:featurestatus:discussion
  crystal-lang/shards#635 · Filter by author ysbaddaden opened on Jun 13, 2024
  16

• Scripts cannot be used for subcommands on Windows

  kind:featureplatform:windows
  crystal-lang/shards#632 · Filter by author straight-shoota opened on May 20, 2024

• shards install --local doesn't recognize cached shards

  kind:bug
  crystal-lang/shards#628 · Filter by author straight-shoota opened on Apr 24, 2024
  10

• Support for cross compilation

  kind:question
  crystal-lang/shards#627 · Filter by author noraj opened on Apr 21, 2024
  8

• shards outdated - Unsupported ref type for this resolver

  kind:bug
  crystal-lang/shards#625 · Filter by author petr-fischer opened on Apr 11, 2024

• Dependency Dashboard

  crystal-lang/shards#619 · Filter by author renovate opened on Feb 23, 2024

• Resilience for shard sources

  kind:featurestatus:discussion
  crystal-lang/shards#601 · Filter by author straight-shoota opened on Dec 2, 2023

• Random spec failures while concurrent building

  kind:bugkind:specs
  crystal-lang/shards#597 · Filter by author deiv opened on Aug 9, 2023
  1

• Outdated has output in the wrong order

  kind:bug
  crystal-lang/shards#596 · Filter by author xendk opened on Aug 6, 2023

• Connect executables with targets

  kind:featurestatus:discussion
  crystal-lang/shards#591 · Filter by author straight-shoota opened on Jul 15, 2023
  14