Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:16:13 -0600 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ocaml ports needs love Message-ID: <CADLFttcD7d67Z-OM9dKWbV-q-t718z-zL0nSMMmWcWUyAwqBsA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGFTUwMu9uEX9JxAqZTD7KUNAVqxXZUkjP1S6mn8HV6RVGh4UA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGFTUwMu9uEX9JxAqZTD7KUNAVqxXZUkjP1S6mn8HV6RVGh4UA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:09 AM, b.f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: >>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outdated, lots of ocaml ports not being carefully maintained and updated.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. The update of lang/opa requires ocaml 4. I don't know if the current version of lang/opa will working with ocaml 4. If it doesn't build then don't worry about it. You guys can go ahead mark it as BROKEN if you don't know the fix. I will update it and remove BROKEN when I can. > b. -- mezz.freebsd@gmail.com - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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