Re: Anyone want to adopt my OCaml packages?

[Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>]

Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org> writes:
>
>
>
> > > Package: libdbi-ocaml
> > > Package: libdbi-ocaml-dev
> > > Package: libmissinglib-ocaml-dev
> > > Package: libocamlodbc-ocaml-bin
> > > Package: libocamlodbc-ocaml-dev
> > > Package: libounit-ocaml-dev
> > > Package: libperl4caml-ocaml
> > > Package: libperl4caml-ocaml-dev
> > > Package: libperl4caml-ocaml-doc
> > > Package: libregexp-pp-ocaml-dev
> > > Package: libsqlite-ocaml
> > > Package: libsqlite-ocaml-dev
> > > Let me know if you're interested.
> >
> > I think I could manage those packages if you want (well, I'd put d-o-m
> > as the maintainer but I could be the "main uploader"), I've got some
> > time for that. They don't seem to be so hard to maintain nor to have
> > serious bugs.
> > Of course, if anyone else wants to take (some of) those packages I'll
> > let him have them.
>
> But are you sure they are usefull to anyone? I think it would be a good
> opportunity to make Debian a bit lighter by throwing out some of them.
> For example, Perl4Caml. Well, unless you want to spend your time
> packaging them of course.

I'm not sure those packages are completely useless. For example, libdbi 
is a nice attempt to have a unified interface for databases, etc.

Concerning perl4caml, I definitively think it could be useful too:
1. it could ease the migration of a perl program to OCaml if you want to 
rewrite it progressively,
2. perl has an incredible number of libraries for all imaginable 
purposes, it's always nice to know that you can bind one of them if you 
don't have the time (or the motivation) to rewrite it in caml.

I don't know if I would have packaged all of them but anyway they are 
here and maintaining such packages shouldn't take tremendous amounts of 
work or time.

Regards,

Sam.