From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BACBC6B for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:09 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAO/7k0fUGyojimdsb2JhbACBV45DAQEBCAQGBwoICQeBFJkG X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,226,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="6342635" Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.35]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2008 11:00:08 +0100 Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44D03F61F3; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from Llea.celt.neu (ron34-3-82-236-236-194.fbx.proxad.net [82.236.236.194]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125333F620E; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from Llea.celt.neu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Llea.celt.neu (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0L8xvf9001882; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:59:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michael.le_barbier@laposte.net) Received: (from michael@localhost) by Llea.celt.neu (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m0L8xvWf001863; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:59:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michael.le_barbier@laposte.net) X-Authentication-Warning: Llea.celt.neu: michael set sender to michael.le_barbier@laposte.net using -f To: "ivan chollet" Cc: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on the BSD port system References: <20080120171334.860A47000086@mwinf8403.laposte.net> From: michael.le_barbier@laposte.net (=?iso-8859-15?Q?Micha=EBl?= Le Barbier) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:59:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080120171334.860A47000086@mwinf8403.laposte.net> (ivan chollet's message of "Sun\, 20 Jan 2008 18\:13\:33 +0100") Message-ID: <86odbfsgdu.fsf@Llea.celt.neu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 gentoo:01 zacchiroli:01 ,...:98 threads:01 unix:01 maintainer:01 maintainer:01 caml-list:01 writes:01 reuse:01 seems:03 berkeley:04 debian:04 "ivan chollet" writes: > I would like to point out that OCaml is not updated on a regular basis in > the FreeBSD port system. It seems like the maintainer is not maintaining > it anymore. Does someone have any plan about updating the port? It would > be good to use 3.10 on Gentoo, FreeBSD, Darwin,... don't know how many > users are really concerned about this though. Hi, I am also an happy FreeBSD+OCaml and user. I have recently worked on some OCaml related stuff, and tried to reach the OCaml port maintainer for some reason. He did not answer at all; maybe will you have better luck than I had. In case he is now too busy to maintain OCaml, someone should take the things up ... I am interested in this, however I will not do it now because I am graduating, and you know ... :) I have a very small experience in porting software for FreeBSD, for common software, this is a fairly straightforward task, explained in the Porter's Handbook. Porting OCaml could be more complicated, since: 1 OCaml provides an interface to the Unix system, to Berkeley databases and threads, and there may be some differences between FreeBSD and Linuses in these areas; 2 special provision could be needed in order to deal with shared libraries that other ports may install. For 1, it could be sufficient to reuse work of the previous porter; I have zero-knowledge regarding 2 but people that worked on it in Debian (Stefano Zacchiroli et al.) may give a word of advise here. --=20 Happy hacking, Micha=EBl LB