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Re: OCaml curses?



On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:15:23PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> On 07-08-2007, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:01:04AM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:52:18PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> >> > Have Debian considered packaging a curses/ncurses binding?
> >> 
> >> I did in the past, but gave up due to the lack of a "reliable" upstream.
> >> I was aware of ocaml-tmk you are mentioning (which seems to be quite
> >> dead ...) and of the curses example used in the OCaml manual for showing
> >> how to use the C/OCaml glue code.
> >> 
> >> > I intend to fork this project to create a stable upstream which both
> >> > Debian and Fedora can use, unless you know of another binding which I
> >> > should be using instead.
> >> 
> >> Why forking? Have you tried contacting the author and asking him to
> >> become a member of the Savannah project? Seems to be a better start to
> >> me.
> >
> > I did -- ages ago.  Better ask him again.
> >
> > BTW, I need this because we will hopefully start to ship some
> > OCaml-based tools in Fedora.  With any luck starting here:
> > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/
> >
> 
> I was looking at ocaml-tmk, this morning. I won't consider to package
> it, because i think upstream is unresponsive. But i would really
> appreciate to have a fork that only contains the curses binding (and not
> the tmk things). If Richard is willing to do the fork i will consider to
> package it (given the fact that i have been quite busy with many things
> including real life stuff).

I've talked to upstream today and Nicolas has given me admin
permissions on the Savannah site.  So I'll produce a new upstream
release shortly (probably tomorrow).  Does anyone mind if I deprecate
the tmk/ directory?  Personally I'm only really interested in the
curses stuff.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat



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