Re: OCaml curses?
On 07-08-2007, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
I am not interested in the tmk stuff, but i think it will be better to
split the current source in two : ocaml-curses and ocaml-tmk. It is just
a question of keeping some code that has already been written. Maybe,
someday someone will want to use ocaml-tmk (or package it).
I will be on vacation for one week without internet connection. Don't be
surprised if i only answer you in a week ;-)
Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall
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