From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 30 16:14:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAF216A4DA; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:14:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephane@freebsd-fr.org) Received: from Smtp.neuf.fr (sp604001mt.neufgp.fr [84.96.92.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A369843D45; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:14:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephane@freebsd-fr.org) Received: from sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo ([84.97.217.19]) by sp604001mt.gpm.neuf.ld (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-5.05 (built Feb 16 2006)) with ESMTP id <0J38002RY53QO221@sp604001mt.gpm.neuf.ld>; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:14:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo (localhost.mondomaineamoi.megalo [127.0.0.1]) by sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6UGF2wJ003033; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:15:02 +0200 Received: (from stephane@localhost) by sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k6UGF1tH003032; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:15:01 +0200 (CEST envelope-from stephane) Content-return: allowed Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:15:01 +0200 From: Stephane Legrand In-reply-to: <20060729232722.7791c5c0@localhost> To: Stanislav Sedov Message-id: <20060730161501.GA1475@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <20060729232722.7791c5c0@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: stephleg@free.fr List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:14:30 -0000 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. -- Club Unix/Log. libres Cosne/Loire: www.cosnix.org