Following up some private discussions about ports vs opam I did some grep'ing, google'ing, github'ing, and opam'ing and came up with the list below.
I think this are prime candidates for being removed from the ports tree. 14 out of the 56 ocaml related ports I could find. ALL but ocaml-curses and ocmal-calendar are behind the upstream to one extent or the other. The migration to github seems to be in flood and at least two current upstreams appear to have been recently obsoleted. All are available at their current level from opam 1.2 and thus the upcoming opam 2.0. None seem to be used by other ports and so seem to be there to support actual ocaml programming efforts rather than being end-user ports written in ocaml for people to use as-is. My impression of the Ocaml space is that 'real programmers' get their libraries from opam these days. (>1500 opam packages and counting!) I am but a ocaml dilettante but that's certainly what I do. I have strong suspicions that Anil would prefer the ones he is currently down as maintainer for to disappear into the Borg. My main motivation is to ease the burden off keeping ocaml current during my episodic spasms of enthusiasm for it. :-) We are soon to be two releases behind! I think the chances of keeping current are shrinking as it is after their move to an aggressive six month release cycle. Where did they get that idea from? Anyway, I'm happy to do the dirty work of nuking any or all of these ports and then continuing the process of weeding out ports that might be more useful to get people sourcing from opam. And thus hopefully making it simpler to keep us on the ocaml bleeding edge. Thoughts? .... Ken The numbers <our version>/<latest upstream version>/<Opam version> Anil: ./databases/ocaml-postgresql 3.2.1/4.0.1/4.0.1 (master & homepage dead?) ./databases/ocaml-sqlite3 2.0.9/4.1.2/4.1.2 (master & homepage dead?) ./devel/ocaml-calendar 2.03.2/2.0.4/2.03.2 ./graphics/ocaml-camlimages 4.2.1/4.2.1/4.2.3 ./security/ocaml-cryptokit 1.10/1.11/1.11 ./textproc/ocaml-rss 2.0/2.2.1/2.2.2 ./textproc/ocaml-xml-light 2.2/2.4/2.4 ./textproc/ocaml-xmlm 1.2.0/1.2.0/1.2.0 Chrisz ./devel/ocaml-batteries 2.5.0/2.5.3/2.5.3 ./devel/ocaml-net 4.0.2/4.1.2/4.1.2 Edd: ./devel/ocaml-mlgmp 0.13/20120224/20120224 None: ./devel/ocaml-bitstring 2.0.4/2.0.4/2.1.0 (google code!?) ./devel/ocaml-curses 1.0.3/1.0.3/1.0.3 ./textproc/ocaml-csv 1.4.1/1.6/1.6
