On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 4:29 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > (I've added a few opam devs to CC) > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:14:41PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > opam orphan 1 weeks > > ago > > I didn't notice that opam had been orphaned. This package is the tool > used for source packaging of OCaml packages under $HOME > (https://opam.ocaml.org/). > > I don't especially like language-specific tools for managing packages, > because of the usual problems that have been widely discussed > elsewhere and it's not profitable to rehash them again. This is my > personal view. > > The question is if we want to keep this in Fedora or not? ie. As an > official Fedora package versus something that opam maintainers would > provide themselves as a download.
I would like to take opam for Fedora. People who need this package would be easier to install it. Just like pip for Python and cpanm for Perl, which are available in Fedora. People just use the package as it is. They don't urge a full integration with Fedora-shipped Ocaml packages. And there is a use case in the XAPI community and the Citrix company that a huge opam repo is packaged in a single RPM[1]. They don't ship individual RPM per Ocaml package. They also package opam as an RPM[2]. So, It won't be hard to also maintain the opam RPM in Fedora. [1] https://github.com/xcp-ng-rpms/xs-opam-repo [2] https://github.com/xcp-ng-rpms/opam - robin > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch > http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
