On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 10:41:58 +0100 Anil Madhavapeddy <a...@recoil.org> wrote:
> I’m also working on a non-April fools joke, which is sufficient > metadata in dune to generate reliable openbsd ports. So in a few > months, we should be able to type in package names and have > reasonable Makefiles output for the ports (including WANTLIB etc). > Am doing it for Homebrew and a few other operating systems as well to > see if we can sidestep the port maintainer burden somewhat. Unsure > yet if it’ll be suitable for usage in OpenBSD, but at a minimum it’ll > generate sufficient scaffolding for a human ports maintainer to tweak > for upstreaming. That's an interesting idea, I also thought about, but was wondering whether to generate the port from OPAM metadata or create a package from opam builds. This would obviously not integrate with the ports infrastructure. But would it even need to? Christopher -- http://gmerlin.de OpenPGP: http://gmerlin.de/christopher.pub CB07 DA40 B0B6 571D 35E2 0DEF 87E2 92A7 13E5 DEE1
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