On Wednesday 15 January 2014 11:22:08 Christophe Troestler wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:27:54 +0100, Louis Gesbert wrote:
> > 
> > Indeed, that would break (quite badly) -- Thomas thought that the url file 
> > already supported (unused) archive lists, but that must have been removed 
> > at some point.
> > If it's very important to have this now, I can modify the patch so that it 
> > only changes the repo in a 1.1.0-compatible way, by adding a `mirror` field 
> > instead of changing the current type of the `archive` and similar fields. I 
> > tend to think that the smoothness of upgrade may be worth the slightly less 
> > clear resulting file format.
> > 
> > Any opinions on this ? The problem still exists even if we shift that after 
> > release.
> 
> Does it break if we allow several archive fields?

The OPAM file formats in general don't allow duplicated fields, so we would 
need to add a deeper-rooted exception for this. As we are not _that_ hurried, 
1.1.1 will be without that patch so that the repo migration can be done 
properly.
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