I see an immediate problem with packages that install several executable files (for instance, Melt provides a library and a collection of tools, none of them named melt, by the way). I haven't spent time looking more than superficially into oasis or odb yet, but it strikes me as a possibly important limitation.

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Arnaud Spiwack

On 11 February 2012 22:10, Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com> wrote:
odb is a simple ocaml program to install ocaml packages with dependencies.  I've written a document on the assumptions it makes of the packages it's to install.  By sharing this, I hope to influence library and application developers to use a standard interface for compiling their program.

The details are here: https://github.com/thelema/odb/blob/master/guidelines.md

Thank you for any feedback.  Please bear in mind that odb is meant to be simple, so the complexity of configuring, building and installing any packages is expected to be in that package's build system, and not odb itself.

E.

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