there are many depends in the opam file
UnixJunkie opened this issue · 5 comments
I don't know if you can or even should do something about it.
But, it makes the install quite slow; also, I suspect the install will break easily in the future, or be incompatible with what the user already have installed.
Yeah there are some pretty heavy deps in there. For example, I just did a little experiment and found that removing just re2 and ppx_string would get the ocaml install . command in a fresh switch down from 67 to 21 dependencies.
I have been meaning to switch Re2 to ocaml-re for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it. The ppx_string one is easier to remove, but removing that one but not re2 doesn't really help according to the opam solver.
For regexps, there is also the Str module.
I don't know what people have against it; it always solves my problems once I have a correct regexp.
On the v0.3.0 branch the opam install . command from the repository on a fresh switch wants to install 72 packages. The same command on the current dev branch which will be 0.3.1 only wants 30 (eg switching re2 to re, and no core, core_bench, or bisect_ppx). Much faster install time too.
At some time I may remove ppx_string, but for now it will stay as it is used in quite a few places currently.
that's a lot better already
I will close this for now. The only other dep that would be "easy" to remove is ppx_string and its used quite a lot.