Add a package field to the cinaps stanza
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- OCaml
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Description
The cinaps stanza does not support the package field at the moment, making all packages in a multi opam repo depend on cinaps, even if just as a test dep.
It would be nice to have a way to restrict these to a specific package.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the cinaps stanza implementation and existing handling for package-scoped fields. Trace how cinaps dependencies are generated for multi-package opam repositories, then add coverage showing that the package field restricts the dependency to the selected package.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ocaml
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100