OPAM implementation deps ("virtual" libs), e.g. digestif
digestif is an example of a library that affords multiple implementations. To use it one must depend on both digestif and either digestif.c or digestif.ocaml
We should be able to reduce this to a dependency on digestif and a build/config setting that automatically selects the implementation. This should work with the new "nocamlfind" version that generates BUILD.bazel files for opam libs. The following is currently generated for digestif
ocaml_import(
name = "digestif",
version = """0.9.0""",
archive = select({
"@ocaml//mode:bytecode": [
"@ocaml//mode:native": [
}),
deps = [
"@opam//lib/bigarray-compat",
"@opam//lib/eqaf",
],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"]
)
The idea is that we can add a select to the deps attribute to make digestif depend on an implementation, something like:
struct = select({
":foo: "@opam/lib/digestif/c",
":bar": "@opam/lib/digestif/ocaml",
}),
Here :foo and :bar could be platform constraints, for example.
in the case of digestif, we can define build settings in the package, so e.g. the user can select an implementation by passing one of --@opam//lib/digestif:c or --@opam//lib/digestif:ocaml. default could be c, so the option would only be needed to switch to the ocaml impl.