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From: Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>, Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
	pukkamustard <pukkamustard@posteo.net>
Subject: Re: Packaging OCaml repositories that define multiple packages?
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2023 20:52:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fsck6bw4.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <663DEABC-D27B-4E6F-B0E8-4B2ADF609F4A@lepiller.eu>

Thanks!  Yeah, the alias solution was not pretty.  Guess I'll use
inherits and set the package argument.

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:

> The importer will not support such a package. As you say, it wants to
> build them separately because they are separate opam packages. So,
> either we build them separately too, or we build all at once.
>
> If we build all at once, that's fine. You could name the package
> ocaml-mirage and not use any #:package argument. Dune will then build
> all packages from the repository.
>
> One issue with that is that the importer will not know about it and will try
> to import subpackages again whenever a packages depends on it, instead
> of using ocaml-mirage.
>
> I don't like the alias solution, though it should work, since the importer
> would see them.
>
> Le 8 janvier 2023 15:04:35 GMT+01:00, Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>
> a écrit :
>
>  I'm going through my MirageOS commits for what is hopefully
>  the last
> time before I send the patches and I realized that a problem that I
> thought was isolated is a lot more widespread than I thought.
>
> As an example look at https://github.com/mirage/mirage/
>
> It defines functoria, functoria-runtime, mirage, and mirage-runtime.
>
> It is possible to build all 4 as one package.
>
> The opam importer seems to not be able to handle situations like this,
> since it defines a new package for each sub-package.
>
> How should I proceed?  I definitely want to merge all redundant packages
> into one, but then what?  How should the package description reflect
> this?  What should the package be named when it corresponds to 4 OPAM
> packages at once?
>
> For now I defined a few aliases for cases like this, but I'm not sure if
> this is ideal.  They look like this (made up but possible example):
> (define ocaml-mirage ocaml-mirage-runtime)



  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-08 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-08 14:04 Packaging OCaml repositories that define multiple packages? Csepp
2023-01-08 15:17 ` Julien Lepiller
2023-01-08 19:52   ` Csepp [this message]
2023-01-09  1:37     ` Csepp
2023-01-09  7:17       ` pukkamustard
2023-01-09 12:07         ` Csepp

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