[opam-devel] Separation of descr and opam

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

The main reason is escaping. When you want to use some raw text in a structured file you need escaping rules and I found it very annoying.

Thomas

On Mar 25, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Daniel Bünzli wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I guess there must be a reason why opam chooses not to include the info of `descr` as fields in `opam` files. I have a few hypotheses but none that convince me, I'm interested in knowing the technical rationale behind that choice; just being curious.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Daniel
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