On Sep 6 13:47, Damien Doligez wrote: > Dear Cygwin packagers, > > It looks like the ocaml package is abandoned: the current version > (OCaml 3.08.1) dates back to 2006, and the listed maintainer is > Igor Pechtchanski (from before he changed his name).
Yes, Igor is AWOL for quite some time now, unfortunately. > Unless it is by design that OCaml is held back to an obsolete version, > I would like to volunteer to take over maintainership. That would be nice. > I'm one of the main developers of OCaml, and I've been a cygwin user > for a few years now. I'm getting tired of reinstalling OCaml by hand > on every new cygwin I install... > I have read through the Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide (twice). > > This is the contents of my setup.hint file for the updated package, > mostly unchanged from Igor's version: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > sdesc: "The Objective Caml compiler and runtime" > ldesc: "Objective Caml is a fast modern type-inferring functional > programming language descended from the ML (Meta Language) > family. The OCaml compiler is developed at INRIA's project-team > Gallium" > requires: cygwin libncurses7 > category: Interpreters Devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------ That's ok, but for an ITA you should also provide links to the binary and source packages. It's hard to check them for correctness otherwise... Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat