From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F1BBC3F for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:34:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9TIYR3I020369 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:34:27 +0200 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA21238 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:34:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gw.orcaware.com (bdsl.66.12.233.174.gte.net [66.12.233.174]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9TIYNJ2020356 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:34:26 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gw.orcaware.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9TIYA6R001176; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:34:14 -0700 Message-ID: <41828D22.90305@orcaware.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:34:10 -0700 From: Blair Zajac User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jacques Garrigue Cc: mgushee@havenrock.com, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Packaging OCaml for Linux References: <20041028204047.GB5402@swordfish> <20041029.095157.71083228.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <20041029.095157.71083228.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41828D33.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41828D2F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; zajac:01 orcaware:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 ocaml:01 camlimages:01 symbolic:01 usr:01 stow:01 zajac:01 orcaware:01 orca:01 bin:01 jacques:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: Jacques Garrigue wrote: > From: Matt Gushee > >>I recently decided to try a new Linux distribution--Arch--and >>quickly became an enthusiastic convert. Now, I've noticed that there is >>no OCaml package for Arch Linux, and I would like to provide one. I'd >>like to hear the community's opinion on a couple of questions: >> >>1) Which OCaml distribution should be the basis for the Linux package: >> the basic distribution from INRIA, or GODI? Why do you think so? > > > GODI is probably difficult to make into a package: it is a package > manager itself. Something that would be useful is to have a set of godi* packages in the system's native package management system that would ensure that the required packages godi needs to build are available. It could then probably call godi_build and let godi handle the rest. I spent a large amount of time with Fink determining which packages godi needs to build. For example, to build camlimages and ensure that all image formats are enabled, required a good amount of time and a large number of packages. Also, these godi* packages could set up a set of symbolic links from a godi managed directory back to the system's /usr/bin, say using stow. Blair -- Blair Zajac Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/