Opam.File
opam package file access.
Normally opam metadata access is only needed at distribution time and this is handled by Topkg_care.Opam.File
using the opam-format
library.
However there is one case where we want to be able to access the metadata from Topkg
: on pin builds where the watermarking process needs to be run to turn the repo into a pseudo-distribution.
Since we don't want Topkg
to have any dependency and that opam
currently doesn't allow to consult the fields of arbitrary opam files (see issue #2446) we assume a pin build has the topkg
tool installed and call to it to get the opam fields for watermarking (if topkg
is unavailable the watermarks are simply undefined).
The type for a simplified model the fields of an opam file. See Topkg_care.Opam.File
.