On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Xyne <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > > I am looking at the state of the ArchLinux Ocaml packages. I am trying to > > update a number of them and I am trying to build a number of ocaml > > applications, but there are many incosistencies. > > > > The main problem is that there are ocaml packages that build with findlib > > and without findlib, and they place the development libs in different > > places. Also I have found a few packages that install libs in the findlib > > dir AND in the ocaml dir. > > > > The two directories are : > > findlib: /usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib > > non-findlib: /usr/lib/ocaml > > > > Other distributions with more developed ocaml support, such as fedora and > > Debian/Ubuntu have chosen to use findlib for all packages and they all > > install to the /usr/lib/ocaml dir. > > > > So I am proposing for discussion, that we look into repairing the ocaml > > packages to all use findlib and to install everything into > /usr/lib/ocaml. > > Then we can have some peace on the ocaml front and we can do away with > the > > complications in the AUR with ocaml packages. > > > > I have adopted the ocaml-findlib package and a number of them have been > > orphaned, (which I am picking up) but I wanted to run this by the TUs and > > other AUR devs before I really considered revamping the ocaml landscape > in > > the AUR. > > > > -Thanks > > > > -Thomas S Hatch > > Standardizing the OCaml packages and bringing them in line with > other distributions would be good. > > You should probably add a page to the wiki to document OCaml packaging > guidelines. Include a link to guidelines among the others on the packaging > standards page: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards > > While searching for existing OCaml guidelines in the wiki I found the > following > post, which may or may not be useful: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88588 > > Regards, > Xyne >
Thanks Xyne, that helps, I am going to try and figure out the best way to change the ocaml packaging process without just breaking all of the OCaml packages, i will have the guidelines up shortly and star t moving towards clean ArchLinux Ocaml. -Thomas S Hatch
