depends_on keyword not working as expected

Well basically this code just doesn’t compile.

But the whole docs section is confusing. For example, it says

you will still need to set dependencies when you have a relationship between builders, such as setting the key of a storage account on a web app.`

Which I guess is not correct actually, things seem to work fine without the keyword.

Looks like there are issues at least for a month, see this blog post.

[isaacabraham]

This is probably just a case of documentation being out of date. In the earlier versions of Farmer, you explicitly had to supply depends_on all the time. In more recent releases, wherever we can, we infer the owner of any expressions and automatically set that resource as a dependency.

I’ll have a look through the blog post though - obviously we’re not monitoring every blog out there so thank you for pointing it out to us.

It’s also possibly that there is a breaking change in either removal of an overload for depends_on, or an issue in overload resolution across generic lists (which F# is quite strict on).

[isaacabraham]

For completeness, here’s the updated documentation.