From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 13:09:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E73947A; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:09:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x234.google.com (mail-ie0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3073EEF9; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:09:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f180.google.com with SMTP id bn7so546643ieb.39 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:09:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=AFtnaKzgFwGE4OC3Z6xKD+2QNeM2uE9Nc/KTEQdgG80=; b=DXYfeDnxnlXPY6LAkw0LqdCtlWhuTz0kOpuHij4QgA9Ei3mYFGTJy0kgsa05ibxJD4 /l8xhk+m0Wm9Ca6gxA+nOVh1lfQ+wf0ohDZneRNTg8ioV8/pzx0cG86Xzzga7PSmZY+F SIRRFGDHV9f5UQov9EhG5tc6jxLrHWzDr+/u9uJJsn1ZXf6JtuuHHTm1j+s9qpJKkyHh 4H0mf7WbD+RY3VIW7yMHDvt+dW2IaF1R7uV7QqSsTjs5DrHps23AaYlF1ECe/eSU2amO YNG3ZvXtjR0wpQirxrPT5yuTEw6iE9Prhn9Fg2N6Oi5UuE+ymALAFXuoy7bhwNa4h00N MtYQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.17.166 with SMTP id p6mr7338975igd.12.1361970574898; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.44.2 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:09:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:09:34 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ocaml ports needs love From: "b.f." To: Baptiste Daroussin , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:09:35 -0000 >I received a lot of complaint about ocaml being in a bad shape: lang/ocaml being >outdated, lots of ocaml ports not being carefully maintained and updated. > >I personnally know nothing about ocaml so I'm not able to actually be helpful to >improve the situation, I would love to see people taking the task of cleaning up >the situation, bringing up ocaml ports to newer version. > >Probably creating a ocaml@ team would be a good idea? Have these people been talking to the maintainers, or those responsible for outstanding PRs? Because I've only had two inquiries in the past several months. There were a few delays as maintainership passed from stas to new volunteers, the pre-release freeze was drawn-out, some upstream bugs were fixed, and while other changes (like tcl/tk) were made. But I expect that the new ocaml will be done soon (right after an update of lablgtk2) , and Michael Grunewald has been active. An ocaml alias and mailing list might help at least for the unmaintained ports, and as a place for discussions. b.