From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q27CWNBQ028254 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:32:23 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlEDAPhUV09KN1ZKlWdsb2JhbABDhTSwBAEBAQEJCwkJEimCNIELAhgOAj8KCgwbiAAEmT6OD5I6gS+OKjNjBJsSjSo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,545,1325458800"; d="scan'208";a="148024172" Received: from mail6.webfaction.com (HELO smtp.webfaction.com) ([74.55.86.74]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 07 Mar 2012 13:32:17 +0100 Received: from heyho.local (13-234.197-178.cust.bluewin.ch [178.197.234.13]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D6C26EC7EF for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:32:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:32:11 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Daniel_B=C3=BCnzli?= To: caml-list Message-ID: <35CD2569B25340E28784ABDB2505BDC2@erratique.ch> X-Mailer: sparrow 1.5 (build 1043.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by walapai.inria.fr id q27CWNBQ028254 Subject: [Caml-list] odb questions Hello, A few questions about odb. 1) Is it possible to specify in ~/.odb/packages a remote packages file (instead of just individual remote packages) ? 2) How does odb find out and manage dependencies ? How can I list them before installing a package ? 3) Are multiple versions of the same package supported (à la homebrew on osx) ? 4) Is something like odb install -file package.tbz possible ? The use case for 4) is both for testing and so that I can instruct my users once they have downloaded a tbz and went through the README that they can just install it with that command (provided they have installed other deps). Daniel P.S. I think odb should use a odb scheme. Instead of just installing on odb . The former scheme has better scaling opportunities.