Orbit - Package Manager - Specification/ideas

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-07-15 11:21, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-07-14 11:07, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>>> And in Package SubTypes:
>>> No documentation subtype for now?
>>
>> I though they were quite self explanatory. But I can add documentation
>> for them if necessary.
>
> Sorry, my question wasn't clear:
> I meant where will 'api documentation' for libraries go? In a special
> 'documentation' subtype or in the library packages?

Aha. In the library package. Or is there a need for a package containing 
just API documentation?

>> I see no point in setting the build_dependencies and dependencies
>> fields if the package doesn't have any dependencies. nil/null would be
>> not set and an empty array (in this case) would be empty.
>>
>
> Well, having to set it explicitly makes it less likely to forget those
> fields, but that's the only reason.

Ok, I don't think it would be necessary.

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/Jacob Carlborg