> * Location of design documents: not sure at all this is best, because 
> versionning of the design document (at least during the design phase) doesn't 
> need to be synchronized with the source, but it has its advantages, and I 
> don't like github's wikis much. Seemed more practical for something in-depth 
> than just an issue. Do you suggest another option ? Adding headers is a good 
> idea.

repo + up-to-date headers is fine (and adding the right headers to other design 
spec as well)

Thomas


>> - Anil Madhavapeddy, 06/01/2015 15:39 -
>> Looks great, Louis!  My immediate thoughts:
>> 
>> - This does have the potential to complicating pinning quite a lot, which
>> needs to be balanced against the better upgrade messages.  Do you think 
>> this will need a package selection priority the way that apt-pinning in
>> Debian works (e.g. so that ocaml-tls can be selected ahead of openssl-tls
>> for the TLS package).
>> 
>> - The forking and providing replacements would be really useful for Mirage,
>> where we're having an active discussion about how to provide Xen-specific
>> versions of certain packages such as Zarith.  Thomas (with any surname),
>> opinions on this?
>> 
>> - How much damage will this do to the internal solver heuristics?
>> 
>> -anil
>> 
>>> On 5 Jan 2015, at 08:36, Louis Gesbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all, and happy new year !
>>> 
>>> I just added to opam a design proposal to open discussion on the 
>>> implementation of the 'provides' field and its use-cases.
>>> 
>>> It's at https://github.com/ocaml/opam/blob/master/doc/design/provides.md
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Louis
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