There is discussion about allowing build-time only dependencies, but at the moment everything is under the 'depends' field. This makes sense as OPAM is source-based: the main benefit of build-time only dependencies would be to sometines reduce the amount of recompilations needed.
Best, Louis On Tuesday 15 April 2014 10:20:33 Markus Elfring wrote: > Hello, > > The software package format that is supported by the tool "OCaml Package > Manager > 1.1" refers also to a specific build command. Will it be needed to distinguish > the dependencies for this command from the other build requirements for a > software? > > Other popular package formats use the following fields to express such > information. > - Build-Depends > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps > > - BuildRequires > http://rpm5.org/docs/api/dependencies.html > > > Regards, > Markus > _______________________________________________ > Platform mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/platform _______________________________________________ Platform mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/platform
