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Reply-To: Oliver Bandel X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Sequence: 17168 Errors-to: caml-list-owner@inria.fr Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: caml-list-request@inria.fr X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Quoting Francois Berenger (snt: 2018-11-27 03:33 +0100 CET) (rcv: 2018-11-27 03:33 +0100 CET): > On 27/11/2018 07:44, Jaap Boender wrote: > > On 26/11/2018 10:14, Oliver Bandel wrote: > > > The situation differs, if one wants to package the written software, > > > and one needs to know many of those tools, just to compile the stuff. > > > So, when one just wants to compile and install some software, > > > just for that, it would take much effort to learn the different > > > build-tools. > > > > I'd like to chime in here - as the person responsible for doing most > > of the OCaml packaging for pkgsrc, I've noticed that I can hardly ever > > just update a package to a new version anymore - I'll generally also > > need to update the infrastructure as some sort of new build tool will > > have become involved, with all its attendant quirks, or someone will > > have decided to change the name of packages, or some other change will > > have occurred. Things seem to be in a constant state of flux, and thus > > packaging becomes quite time-consuming. > > There is a tool from Louis Gesbert of OCamlPro that might help people who > want to create > a self-contained installer for some OCaml software that is already packaged > for opam: [...] Hey, just another tool, yay! :-> And if it's too complicated, just invent another tool on top of that! :-> (of course with different syntax and clis-witches) Ciao, Oliver -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list https://inbox.ocaml.org/caml-list Forum: https://discuss.ocaml.org/ Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs