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.
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