[opam-devel] OPAM 1.3 roadmap

[Peter Zotov]

On 2015-02-25 13:48, Roberto Di Cosmo wrote:
>> I'm less sure about the viability of recording installed files
>> strictly -- I view thatas an advisory rather than enforcement-based
>> mechanism.  The reason I like the "make ~/.opam a git store" is that
>> its possible for applications to write directly into the store as they
>> do right now, but still let us track changes precisely.  In fact, if
>> we forbid subshells from writing into `~/.opam/.git`, this would be
>> a production grade solution that also offers instant-rollback in case
>> of compilation errors (no more waiting for a full recompilation of
>> the original dependencies!).

Please don't make .opam a git store. Even with one snapshot, it means
that my .opam would be 11G instead of 5.5G it currently is. What's worse
is that every recompilation or upgrade would balloon the store even 
more.
I can easily anticipate it filling the entirety of my 500GB drive,
for example. That's absurd.

Also, git is pretty slow at handling many large binary files (which is
the single worst workload you can use it for). Delta compression
takes noticeable time on my blog, which has a mere 500MB of photos.

-- 
Peter Zotov