From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 6 19:43:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7884217 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 19:43:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.contact@marino.st) Received: from shepard.synsport.net (mail.synsport.com [208.69.230.148]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0D98288E for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 19:43:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.22] (unknown [130.255.26.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEFE5435C7; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 13:43:07 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <527A9BB8.5010401@marino.st> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:42:48 +0100 From: John Marino User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Gr=FCnewald?= Subject: Re: OCaml 4? References: <830ACA3E-9233-453F-A891-2EA0F0B9F2DB@felyko.com> <527A9A9B.2040202@laposte.net> In-Reply-To: <527A9A9B.2040202@laposte.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Rui Paulo , FreeBSD ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: marino@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:43:25 -0000 On 11/6/2013 20:38, Michael Grünewald wrote: > Hi Rui! > > Sorry that I did not take time to answer your previous EMail. It seems > you did not check outstanding PRs or overlooked this one: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/173364 > > In short, there is a candidate upgrade in the ports, since quite a > while. While I did not hear anything from committer, I probably need to > fix that STAGE thing before the port gets checked in. > > Rui Paulo wrote: >> Any plans to upgrade OCaml in FreeBSD ports? If you don't have time, I might take a stab at it. > > Three side notes: > > - https://bitbucket.org/michipili/ports-bsd is a bitbucket repo where I > push my (mostly OCaml) FreeBSD ports before they went in the repo tree. > If you already have a bitbucket account, consider following this repo to > get updates. You may check this out if you want to try the port, your > feedback would be welcome. > > - https://bitbucket.org/michipili/bsdmakepscripts is a bitbucket repo > for BSD Makefiles useful to develop with OCaml. (Shameless promotion!) > > - It is best to use open channel (like the freebsd-ports@ mailing list), > because it is archived and indexed, so people sharing your concern get a > chance to find your question and my answer. > The other thing to note is that DragonFly Ports (dports) has had ocaml 4 and related ocaml upgrades for 9 months. There's really no need to reinvent this, just take the dports versions. I am so glad we didn't wait around for those PRs. John