Re: MetaOCaml for Debian
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 19:21 -0600, Walid Taha wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> I just saw your message from a while back asking if there was any interest
> in packaging MetaOCaml for Debian. Was this question aimed at the
> MetaOCaml developers or Debian/OCaml developers?
Both probably -- I CC to the packagers list now.
> If it's intended at us, please let me know what's involved. I am quite
> interested!
I am not an expert on Debian, Ocaml, MetaOcaml, or anything else :)
However I would love to see MetaOcaml Debian package for two reasons:
(a) it is a fine package, so should be more readily available
(b) I'd like to play with it
I would particularly like to see further upstream work which
allowed the i386 hackery to support run time loading of
native code to be extended to support x86_64 since
1. That's the processor I use, and all my tools libraries,
etc, are built for x86_64.
2. It seems likely the effort will synergise with Ocaml itself
(since I notice Xavier is on the MetaOcaml team?).
However this should NOT stop release of Debian package,
Debian can handle this kind of architectural specialisation
fairly easily I think. (just mentioning it .. :)
However, it may be the MetaOcaml build process is
not suitable for Debian 'as is' and I would leave it to
experts in both products to try to figure out the best
way to get it in.
Basically, the main make process has to depend only
on other standard Debian packages. This can be a bit
messy if the build is bootstrapped. Ocaml is OK,
since it is all done inside the build. Haskell,
however, requires Haskell already, so the Debian
packaging requires special handling (AFAIK).
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
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