From my limited experience, most of OCaml ports are pretty trivial to write
portfiles even by hand. (This does not apply to heavy and complex stuff like
coq, of course.)
You just need to pick the right build system and use existing port examples.
But yes, automatic parsing would be helpful to
There was talk of bringing this feature to upt.
https://github.com/macports/upt-macports/issues/46
On Mar 10, 2024, at 3:58 PM, Perry Metzger wrote:
On 3/9/24 13:26, Zero King wrote:
It seems that we are going with option 2 for ocaml ports now and many new ports
have being added. Are you aware
On 3/9/24 13:26, Zero King wrote:
It seems that we are going with option 2 for ocaml ports now and many
new ports
have being added. Are you aware of any tool like pypi2port that could
help
speed up the process of packaging new ocaml ports for MacPorts?
So I'm not familiar with such a tool
Hi Perry,
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 08:40:49AM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
(2) Insist in installing separate ocaml-* packages as individual ports
and mostly ignoring what "opam" does (apart from maybe providing a
port for it). Note that we do have tools like "cpan2port" and
"pip2port" that help
On Nov 17, 2017, at 01:40, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> The npm is
> another example of this approach. We basically ignore javascript
> packages, but since this is mostly useful for web development, we are
> not really hurt.
npm has the additional complications that a module can specify what range of
On 17 November 2017 at 07:11, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2017-11-17 13:15 , Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> I'm slowly cleaning up the OCaml ports.
>>
>> One of the things of note is that these days (and this wasn't true a
>> couple of years ago), OCaml encourages the use of the "opam" package
>> manager,
On 2017-11-17 13:15 , Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> I'm slowly cleaning up the OCaml ports.
>
> One of the things of note is that these days (and this wasn't true a
> couple of years ago), OCaml encourages the use of the "opam" package
> manager, which is something like the Ruby "Gems" system or
