On 2 Jan 2015, at 19:28, Peter Zotov <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2015-01-02 22:24, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: >> Awesome! I've just cut an installext.1.0.1 with some fixes for Debian >> and CentOS detection (thanks to Dave Scott for the latter). >> https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/3309 >> I think we should maintain both a shell script and an OCaml-based >> distro detection, since they are both of use in different contexts >> (installation vs programmatic use in OPAM). >> How about turning the distro detection logic into a separate library >> called os-identify, and then opam-installext can just become a thin >> shell on top of that? For now though, if you have no objection I'll >> move avsm/opam-installext under the ocaml/ org since it's used by a >> lot of the bulk build scripts already. > > In my view installext should become an integral component of OPAM itself.
This doesn't preclude all the OS detection logic becoming a separate library (that also happens to be bundled with OPAM). -anil _______________________________________________ opam-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel
