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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:15:01 +0200
From:      Stephane Legrand <stephleg@free.fr>
To:        Stanislav Sedov <ssedov@mbsd.msk.ru>
Cc:        stephane@freebsd.org, argentoff@gmail.com, lioux@freebsd.org, djulien.bsd@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, mukai@jmuk.org
Subject:   Re: OCaml language support in ports
Message-ID:  <20060730161501.GA1475@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo>
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On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 11:27:22PM +0400, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
>         We have a lot of OCaml ports that provides additional language
>         packages for OCaml language. Installing of such pacakge requites
>         a lot of steps, e.g. running ocamlfind utility on install/deinstall
>         with correct enviropment, updating OCaml-specific ld.conf on
>         install/deinstall and other. As result ports become a bit complex
>         and very large. You can see working examples in devel/ocaml-equeue,
>         devel/ocaml-sem etc. This ports do similar work "by-hand" via
>         pmake constructs and pkg-install script.
> 
> 	I have submitted include to support OCaml language recently
> 	(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101029).
> 
> ...
> 
> 	It would be nice to have your opinions/suggestions/blames/flames
> 	here. Especially, ocaml-* ports maintainers.
> 
> 	Thanks!

Hello,

Well, it would be definitely interesting to have a such framework
for the OCaml ports. Ruby, Perl, Python and Tcl already have one,
i can see no reason why to not have one for OCaml.

Regards,
Stephane Legrand.

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