Re: ocaml build dep graph

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:

> I wrote a script which given as input a list of packages name (either
> source or binaries) will output a graphviz .dot file with of the build
> dependencies among them.
>
> I run it on packages matching "*caml*" and find out the graph we should
> follow in rebuilding ocaml packages: as predicted by Sven we have a 5
> level hierarchy of build dependencies. There is some issue (like the
> "ocaml-nox" node), but it is meaningful.
>
> I attach:
> - the .dot file of the graph
> - the .ps file of the graph
>
> I will commit the script (build-dep-graph.pl) in our SVN, "tools"
> section.

This is nice!

BTW, IIRC, apt-cache is able to generate dependency graphs. By chance,
have you ever tried it?

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Jérôme Marant