Thanks to Ralf’s work, dose3 has been just accepted in debian experimental !!! yuppiiiii \o/
Dose3 is a framework made of several OCaml libraries for managing distribution packages and their dependencies.
Though not tied to any particular distribution, dose3 constitutes a pool of libraries which enable analyzing packages coming from various distributions.
Besides basic functionality for querying and setting package properties, dose3 also implements algorithms for solving more complex problems (monitoring package evolutions, correct and complete dependency resolution, repository-wide uninstallability checks).
For the ocaml affectionados the API of the library is available here (there is still a bit of work to do here…) . The source code shipped in each release does not include a vast range of applications sitting in the experimental directory. You can have a look at these in our svn.
if you want to get a copy of the development / bleeding edge / unstable version from svn, you can check it out from the svn
svn co https://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/svn/mancoosi/trunk/dose3
user/pass : mancoosi/mancoosi