[opam-devel] [MirageOS-devel] 'provides' field design proposal

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

Thanks Louis for the great summary!

> - The forking and providing replacements would be really useful for Mirage,
> where we're having an active discussion about how to provide Xen-specific
> versions of certain packages such as Zarith.  Thomas (with any surname),
> opinions on this? 

My opinion: I was very keen to have this feature on the bug tracker, but with all the designs details in mind I'm much less keen now. It introduces a lot of complexity with pinning so would be nice to see what we can simplify. For instance, maybe we could forbid virtual packages - and pin only to real packages. Need to think a bit more about that.

a more meta comments: if we put design files in the repo (I'm not very fond of that, but why not), could we have a header specifying the status of the document (ie. draft, partially implemented, deprecated, etc...) and the target opam versions. And keep that up-to-date please.

Thanks,
Thomas 


> 
> - How much damage will this do to the internal solver heuristics?
> 
> -anil
> 
>> On 5 Jan 2015, at 08:36, Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, and happy new year !
>> 
>> I just added to opam a design proposal to open discussion on the implementation of the 'provides' field and its use-cases.
>> 
>> It's at https://github.com/ocaml/opam/blob/master/doc/design/provides.md
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Louis
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