[ocaml-platform] Specification of requirements for build tools?

[Louis Gesbert]

There is discussion about allowing build-time only dependencies, but at the moment everything is under the 'depends' field. This makes sense as OPAM is source-based: the main benefit of build-time only dependencies would be to sometines reduce the amount of recompilations needed.

Best,
Louis

On Tuesday 15 April 2014 10:20:33 Markus Elfring wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The software package format that is supported by the tool "OCaml Package Manager
> 1.1" refers also to a specific build command. Will it be needed to distinguish
> the dependencies for this command from the other build requirements for a software?
> 
> Other popular package formats use the following fields to express such information.
> - Build-Depends
>   http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
> 
> - BuildRequires
>   http://rpm5.org/docs/api/dependencies.html
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Markus
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