Re: ocaml and lindows.com
Hello,
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:22:26AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:57:50PM +0100, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > > Well, i have begun work on a little source snapshot tool (it takes a
> > > given list of binary packages and version, transform them to source
> > > version, and should go download the corresponding sources at
> > > snapshot.debian.org, but i didn't finish it). Goswin also has some ocaml
> > > tools for making debian mirrors, or something such. There is also ara in
> > > the archive, altough i don't remember who wrote it.
> > >
> > > Maybe it is time for writing a common ocaml library for interaction with
> > > ocaml packages list and such, should not be all that difficult, but
> > > would beat having everyone implement their own version of it.
> > >
> >
> > Take a look at pkg-ocaml-maint/dh-make-ocaml/lib. I think you should
> > like PackageName for example which try to guess package type from name (
> > or to fetch it from a little DB ). It also includes type
> > OcamlBaseVPackage OcamlVPackage...
>
> Mmm, i think what i was working on was a bit different (parsing the
> Packages file, getting the source from the binary, getting the right
> version from snapshot.debian.org), but it is complementary, i will
> decidely look into this.
>
Off course, it is not exactly the same thing...
> > I also have think to it ;-> Great idea, but need a lot of time.
>
> But, like Tolkien said, it is the first step which starts long journeys
> (well not exactly that way, but still).
>
What about putting your first step on pkg-ocaml-maint ?
Kind regard
Sylvain LE GALL
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