> -----Original Message----- > From: Xen-devel <xen-devel-boun...@lists.xenproject.org> On Behalf Of > Christian Lindig > Sent: 20 July 2020 09:39 > To: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+...@m5p.com>; xen-de...@lists.xen.org > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com>; Edwin Torok > <edvin.to...@citrix.com>; w...@xen.org; > d...@recoil.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tools/ocaml: Default to useful build output > > > > > Time for a bit of controversy. > > OCaml outside Xen has moved to a different model of building based on dune > which is fast, declarative > and reliable. The OCaml xenstore is stagnating because nobody with OCaml > experience wants to touch it > anymore.
It is still the default. Would you suggest that we change this and make C xenstored the default for 4.15, deprecating oxenstored with a view to subsequently purging it from the tree in the 4.16 dev cycle? Paul > It would be beneficial for the health of the OCaml xenstore to split it out > such that it > could be worked on independently. You might argue that Make is still > appropriate for building OCaml > projects but the OCaml community has moved through several build systems, > starting from Make, and > learned the hard way that this is not an easy problem. After years of > more-or-less successful build > system the consensus is that dune is right one and it has resulted in > combination with the Opam > package manager the ecosystem to flourish. Alternatively, it would be > possible to move OCaml xenstore > to dune within the Xen tree but it would create a dependency on it. > > -- C
