Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:42:48 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Gr=FCnewald?= <michael.grunewald@laposte.net> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>, FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OCaml 4? Message-ID: <527A9BB8.5010401@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <527A9A9B.2040202@laposte.net> References: <830ACA3E-9233-453F-A891-2EA0F0B9F2DB@felyko.com> <527A9A9B.2040202@laposte.net>
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On 11/6/2013 20:38, Michael Grünewald wrote: > Hi Rui! > > Sorry that I did not take time to answer your previous EMail. It seems > you did not check outstanding PRs or overlooked this one: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/173364 > > In short, there is a candidate upgrade in the ports, since quite a > while. While I did not hear anything from committer, I probably need to > fix that STAGE thing before the port gets checked in. > > Rui Paulo wrote: >> Any plans to upgrade OCaml in FreeBSD ports? If you don't have time, I might take a stab at it. > > Three side notes: > > - https://bitbucket.org/michipili/ports-bsd is a bitbucket repo where I > push my (mostly OCaml) FreeBSD ports before they went in the repo tree. > If you already have a bitbucket account, consider following this repo to > get updates. You may check this out if you want to try the port, your > feedback would be welcome. > > - https://bitbucket.org/michipili/bsdmakepscripts is a bitbucket repo > for BSD Makefiles useful to develop with OCaml. (Shameless promotion!) > > - It is best to use open channel (like the freebsd-ports@ mailing list), > because it is archived and indexed, so people sharing your concern get a > chance to find your question and my answer. > The other thing to note is that DragonFly Ports (dports) has had ocaml 4 and related ocaml upgrades for 9 months. There's really no need to reinvent this, just take the dports versions. I am so glad we didn't wait around for those PRs. John
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