[opam-devel] OPAM Roadmap -- what next ?

[Peter Zotov]

On 2014-12-21 15:25, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Le dimanche, 21 décembre 2014 à 12:28, Thomas Gazagnaire a écrit :
> 
>> Having a way to have multiple versions of the same library installed 
>> in the same switch could be very cool as well, although again it 
>> requires support in ocamlfind/build systems
> 
> I'm not so sure you need anything ocamlfind and/or in the build
> systems. Wouldn't it be sufficient to install each package in
> PKG.VERSION directories with PKG symlinked on the latest version ? If
> your root package name is not specified in the META file then you will
> be able to name the versioned packages in ocamlfind.

Imagine four packages installed:
   * B.1
   * B.2
   * A.1 depends: B<2
   * A.2 depends B>=2

Now if you request A.1, the wrong version of B will get pulled in.

> 
> Daniel
> 
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