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

[Roberto Di Cosmo]

Hi Amir,

   on depends, see http://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Packaging.html

   on depopts, see https://github.com/ocaml/opam/blob/master/doc/design/metadata-evolution

   


On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 01:33:41PM +0000, Amir Chaudhry wrote:
> 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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