Hi On 27 April 2012 11:07, Matej Košík < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/27/2012 08:48 AM, Jérôme Maloberti wrote: > > > > You can ask Gerd, but I don't think it is interesting. > > Jerome, friend, do you really think that creating and maintaining yet > another package management system is what is really interesting? Do not > we already have enough of them? > Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean that godi is worthless ? > > What would really make sense, instead, would be a meta-package-system > where, from a single meta-information, you would *generate* packages to > target platforms. > In this case, you can use/contribute to Oasis. In the end it is still useful for godi. > > Funny things about meta-programming is, that in the end, it costs as > much as programming---only with an order of magnitudes higher benefits... > Once again I don't get your point, when did I write that I was opposed to meta-programming ? My main point is complaining vs contributing. If you wish to contribute to oasis or create a new meta-package system, I'm perfectly fine with that. I would be even more fine if you wanted to contribute to godi (as a packager or as a developper of the system) though. I just don't understand why some people keep complaining and asking for more work/features from benevolent maintainers that are already too few. Godi is convenient to manage the dependencies of ocaml packages you need. It is flexible enough that you can (kind of) easily update your local versions without waiting for the maintainer to do it for you. You can use godi on many distributions and OS (even though it is not always easy), but of course you have to care by yourself of external dependencies. It is not that hard to put your own packages if necessary, particularly if you already made some packages for gentoo, or archlinux. So, godi is not perfect, but it is convenient. Of course, you need to, at least, *try* to understand how it works. Now, if you wish to have a debian-like system, you should probably use debian. As Sylvain wrote, their workforce is much bigger than godi, and actually you have way more packages in Debian than in godi. There are many ways to improve godi, but please, try to understand the limitations of the system and the community of maintainers before requesting features or proposing solutions, many things are possible, but not so many are applicable. Thanks Jerome > _______________________________________________ > Godi-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://godirepo.camlcity.org/mailman/listinfo/godi-list >
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