From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 13:26:45 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6A3AEA for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:26:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com (mail-wi0-f174.google.com [209.85.212.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2C3FE0 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f174.google.com with SMTP id hi8so6249809wib.7 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:26:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=6BuGB/JOU4x0Na4wAf3+S4HzFAsHkBTsBovDRcnR4D8=; b=al70iTqkSsAWRvfH/5RMd3R5Mdkodz8OvOh9hx0fFJSpYi9r6TbH7B8k6WAghAwlPc e3QGkB+ogum3gDSimxqXbyl1NAU+Y3FJStrpz3OudF2JaWKCt7fDx/osoe8rHuurlYBd 3rzUXnAwcUhVI2GgsFtxbHBJtKSWSF1MIUML56pDhzgDnRiOtZrah5Oh9zyTE4EbMHAC BonimbZTquRUlamTtzWZQDkGsWEsIb5QhiMTmFrMml0nXmt0RTz8PLdsM9v7Xay0NipT QASDlNichjglVnsabf2jAN5engnttNrk+Rl071EoohkWQ4nPP1lu1HA6xm0SRJTKKr1V V22g== X-Received: by 10.194.77.129 with SMTP id s1mr3994848wjw.17.1361971596870; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:26:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ithaqua.etoilebsd.net (ithaqua.etoilebsd.net. [37.59.37.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n10sm8764978wia.0.2013.02.27.05.26.35 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:26:35 -0800 (PST) Sender: Baptiste Daroussin Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:26:33 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin To: bf1783@gmail.com Subject: Re: Ocaml ports needs love Message-ID: <20130227132633.GI16178@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wjoFZxbW4tu+iR6v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:26:46 -0000 --wjoFZxbW4tu+iR6v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:09:34PM +0000, b.f. wrote: > >I received a lot of complaint about ocaml being in a bad shape: lang/oca= ml being > >outdated, lots of ocaml ports not being carefully maintained and updated. > > > >I personnally know nothing about ocaml so I'm not able to actually be he= lpful to > >improve the situation, I would love to see people taking the task of cle= aning up > >the situation, bringing up ocaml ports to newer version. > > > >Probably creating a ocaml@ team would be a good idea? >=20 > Have these people been talking to the maintainers, or those > responsible for outstanding PRs?=20 I relayed the information in general to ports@ because ocaml-* concerns a lot of maintainer to contact individually, but I supposed most o= f the people sending mail to me about that haven't contacted the maintainers neither report any PR, but can't speak for all of them. > in the past several months. There were a few delays as maintainership > passed from stas to new volunteers, the pre-release freeze was > drawn-out, some upstream bugs were fixed, and while other changes > (like tcl/tk) were made. But I expect that the new ocaml will be done > soon (right after an update of lablgtk2) , and Michael Grunewald has > been active. An ocaml alias and mailing list might help at least for > the unmaintained ports, and as a place for discussions. That is nice to hear, thanks for your work and sorry for noise.o regards, Bapt --wjoFZxbW4tu+iR6v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlEuCYkACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EyRpQCfdRR/+D3GgcuhRwozr9HzPyXi So8An3Oq3rT2ArOkRtu1zeZadvZNx9Xm =A6WG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wjoFZxbW4tu+iR6v--