[opam-devel] Possibly dumb question re deps, opts, exts, etc

[Roberto Di Cosmo]

Well, a class of our users are packagers, and they sure need to know
precisely what all this means, I believe....

Roberto Di Cosmo (via mobile/cell)
Le 27 nov. 2014 09:07, "Louis Gesbert" <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com> a écrit
:

> Indeed, to be honest, these are terms we use internally and the name of
> fields in the opam package format, but we should otherwise be explicit --
> for the field names it's documented, but otherwise users aren't supposed to
> know about them.
>
> On [1], the term appears as the name of a field under the "Optional
> dependecies" title so that seems clear enough ?
>
> Cheers,
> Louis
>
>
> [1] https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Packaging.html
>
> Le lundi 24 novembre 2014, 13:33:41 Amir Chaudhry a écrit :
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Apologies if this naive but I wonder if the terms we use to describe
> dependencies are widely used.  I ask because I've only learned the meanings
> by osmosis and some quick google searching doesn't lead me to any neat
> explanations. Had I come across these for the first time by myself, I'd
> likely be confused (I didn't find them self-explanatory in the beginning).
> >
> > * Dep(s) -- Dependencies
> > * depopt(s) -- Optional dependency
> > * depext(s) -- External dependency
> >
> > Am I missing any?  I wondered about writing a short blog post or
> glossary so that these terms might surface somewhere more easily [1] (I do
> note that 'depopt' appears once in the packaging instructions [2]).
> >
> > I thought I'd post this here just in case it provokes some thoughts.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Amir
> >
> > [1] Something similar to
> http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/ocaml-tutorial.org/glossary.html
> > [2] https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Packaging.html
> >
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