On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:15:23PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > On 07-08-2007, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:01:04AM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:52:18PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > >> > Have Debian considered packaging a curses/ncurses binding? > >> > >> I did in the past, but gave up due to the lack of a "reliable" upstream. > >> I was aware of ocaml-tmk you are mentioning (which seems to be quite > >> dead ...) and of the curses example used in the OCaml manual for showing > >> how to use the C/OCaml glue code. > >> > >> > I intend to fork this project to create a stable upstream which both > >> > Debian and Fedora can use, unless you know of another binding which I > >> > should be using instead. > >> > >> Why forking? Have you tried contacting the author and asking him to > >> become a member of the Savannah project? Seems to be a better start to > >> me. > > > > I did -- ages ago. Better ask him again. > > > > BTW, I need this because we will hopefully start to ship some > > OCaml-based tools in Fedora. With any luck starting here: > > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ > > > > I was looking at ocaml-tmk, this morning. I won't consider to package > it, because i think upstream is unresponsive. But i would really > appreciate to have a fork that only contains the curses binding (and not > the tmk things). If Richard is willing to do the fork i will consider to > package it (given the fact that i have been quite busy with many things > including real life stuff).
I've talked to upstream today and Nicolas has given me admin permissions on the Savannah site. So I'll produce a new upstream release shortly (probably tomorrow). Does anyone mind if I deprecate the tmk/ directory? Personally I'm only really interested in the curses stuff. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
