package b0

The type for opam values.

The type for opam fields. The field name and its value.

The type for opam sections. The section name, the optional string and the contents of the section.

The type for comments.

The type for items.

The type for generic opam file contents.

v2 is opam-version: "2.0".

to_string formats file contents to a string. If normalize is true this calls opam to lint and normalize the result.

pkg_of_meta ~with_name m is an opam package file from m. Here's an account of how opam fields are populated by metadata keys.

• "authors:", B0_meta.authors.
• "available:", B0_opam.Meta.available.
• "build:", B0_opam.Meta.build.
• "bug-report:", B0_meta.issues.
• "conflicts:", B0_opam.Meta.conflicts.
• "description:", B0_meta.description.
• "depends:", B0_opam.Meta.depends.
• "depopts:", B0_opam.Meta.depopts.
• "dev-repo:", B0_meta.repo.
• "doc:", B0_meta.online_doc.
• "homepage:", B0_meta.homepage.
• "install:", B0_opam.Meta.install.
• "license:", B0_meta.licenses.
• "maintainer:", B0_meta.maintainers.
• "name:", B0_opam.Meta.name iff with_name is true.
• "synopsis:", B0_meta.synopsis.
• "tags:", B0_meta.description_tags.

Finally the contents of B0_opam.Meta.file_addendum is appended after the definition of these fields.

See Meta.pkg_of_pack for deriving metadata from build packs.