I have identified a few OCaml packages which have all of the following
properties:
- no active upstream,
- a high maintenance burden,
- aren't used or useful.
I'm intending to orphan these, and recommend that they be removed in
the Fedora 29 time-frame. Of course if you disagree (and even better,
if you want to take over maintenance of them) then please follow up.
- - -
* ocaml-xmlrpc-light
[NB: not to be confused with ocaml-xml-light]
Summary: OCaml library for writing XML-RPC clients and servers
Upstream: http://code.google.com/p/xmlrpc-light/ [dead]
Last release: 2009
Apart from the dead upstream, it doesn't support threads, which
makes using it as an RPC library rather useless. There are a bunch
of RPC libraries out there although nothing with the same API.
* ocaml-openin
Summary: OCaml syntax to locally open modules
Upstream: http://alain.frisch.fr/soft#openin
Last release: 2007
Equivalent syntax is now included in the core OCaml compiler.
* ocaml-p3l
Summary: OCaml compiler for parallel programs
Upstream: http://ocamlp3l.inria.fr/
Last release: prior to 2008
Replaced by another project which is itself dead. In any case this
was an interesting experiment in using skeletons for parallel
programs, but not relevant today.
* ocaml-pa-monad
Summary: OCaml syntax extension for monads
Upstream: http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/pa_monad/
Last release: 2008
Experimental language extension, not used.
* ocaml-json-wheel & ocaml-json-static
Summary: OCaml library for parsing JSON
Upstream: https://mjambon.github.io/mjambon2016/json-wheel.html
Last release: 2009
Replaced by ocaml-yojson
* ocaml-tplib
Summary: Tropical Polyhedra Library
Upstream: https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/tplib
Last release: 2013
No longer compiles because of changes in the dependent GMP library.
* ocaml-bisect
Summary: OCaml code coverage tool
Upstream: http://bisect.x9c.fr/
Last release: 2013
Code coverage can be done more easily using generic DWARF-parsing
tools like kcov. There is no need for an OCaml-specific tool
any longer.
* ocaml-preludeml
Summary: OCaml utility functions
Upstream: http://github.com/kig/preludeml/tree/master
Last release: 2010
There are better utility libraries out there nowadays.
Rich.
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