So folks, any updates? -- Sergei
On Oct 9, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Baptiste wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 12:05:18AM +0400, Sergei Lebedev wrote: >> While `emacs-ocaml-mode` [*] is part of the OCaml distribution it's not >> included in the `ocaml` package (for reasons unknown) and can only be >> installed from AUR. So, why remove? >> >> * orphaned package; unsupported for more than a year >> * can be installed from Marmalade repository via `package.el` [1] >> * can be installed via `el-get` [2] >> * everybody's using `tuareg-mode` [3] anyway :) >> >> So, what do you guys think? > > +1 for the last reason, the tuareg-mode is much better (and of course, > available in the AUR [1]) > > Additionally, the 'emacs-ocaml-mode' PKGBUILD has to download the > whole OCaml sources just to install a single .el file... > > Either include it in the official 'ocaml' package in [extra], either > don't use it at all. The first solution would not be worth it (since > nobody would be using it) and it could conflicts with the tuareg-mode. > > So, +1 for deletion. It's out-of-date and orphaned anyway. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11630 > > -- > GNU/Linux fan && Archlinux user
