Re: [Caml-list] odb questions

[Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>]

On 03/07/2012 10:47 AM, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Okay. Would be nice to have the support in the tool and documentation
> on how to make your own package source (basically GET on a
> ~/.odb/packages file ?). Package distribution should be distributed.
>
one file per package, filename is package name, contents are same format 
as rest of packages line but with \n between key=value pairs instead of 
space.

> By 2) you mean what is described in "Local packages" here :
> https://github.com/thelema/odb  ? Because the syntax for specifiying
> deps is not documented.
>
Deps are just a comma-separated list of package names, with optional 
version numbers in parentheses.  I'll document this in the packages file 
now.

> IMHO a package should be identified by a name and version.
>
I've been thinking about this for a long time, and the full consequences 
of this involve not only deep changes to odb internals, but also expose 
the code to a ton more edge cases that need to be handled, as well as 
possibly some NP-hard problems of resolving version dependencies.  Odb 
may go this way if needed, but the current practice of having a single 
string as the package identifier is sufficient for my use, so...

> Pity. I like odb's down to earth approach.

You're more than welcome to fork and build a better odb.  I may even 
steal any good ideas you have and put them back in my odb.  :)

E.