From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B3DE7EEAF for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:23:27 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: None (mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch) identity=pra; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com) identity=helo; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgcBAEm8/lBKN1ZKm2dsb2JhbABEgziDDbgDDgEBAQEBCAkLCRQngh4BAQQBI1YFCwsaAiYCAkcQBhuICwYEqj2CQI8/gSOPADJhA5JaA4kHE41U X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,515,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="191136586" Received: from mail6.webfaction.com (HELO smtp.webfaction.com) ([74.55.86.74]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 22 Jan 2013 17:23:26 +0100 Received: from [172.20.10.2] (41-233.197-178.cust.bluewin.ch [178.197.233.41]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A50208DAB1; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:23:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:23:19 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Daniel_B=C3=BCnzli?= To: Thomas Gazagnaire Cc: Philippe Veber , Mirage List , Alain Frisch , OCaml mailing-list , Anil Madhavapeddy Message-ID: <275158A520F84991A11398BE11E1CD8C@erratique.ch> In-Reply-To: <7704F68A-2A25-47D2-AD26-A63ECF94716A@ocamlpro.com> References: <6833F17C-B642-4ED9-8C8F-2665A9742845@ocamlpro.com> <50F831B6.6020404@frisch.fr> <224865B3-055C-4E03-AA42-9F962AD516D7@recoil.org> <50F92486.2020704@frisch.fr> <50F92FA9.8050707@frisch.fr> <28252449-E0B3-4A0E-A001-57B72712DD99@recoil.org> <4144589AC12E46C09674D6D80D984289@erratique.ch> <7704F68A-2A25-47D2-AD26-A63ECF94716A@ocamlpro.com> X-Mailer: sparrow 1.6.4 (build 1178) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Opam package publication (was Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] beta-release of OPAM) Le mardi, 22 janvier 2013 =C3=A0 16:46, Thomas Gazagnaire a =C3=A9crit : > Homebrew use the concept of 'taps' where people can register alternative = repositories, which will contain domain-specific packages (ocaml uses to ha= ve one before being integrated in the main repo). Doing that for OPAM is (I= think) a bit overkill.=20=20 Well to me it seems that opam already has the concept, tap =3D repo (or may= be I don't understand what a homebrew tap is). =20=20 > However, I'm happy to have a REPOSITORIES file at the root of OCamlPro/op= am-repositories which lists the available repositories, and write a small s= cript to automatically sync with these repo regularly. Feel free to add you= r repository in there, and I'll write the update script. Feels like a step in the right direction to me. But I don't think it's a go= od idea to make it fully automatic or at least something sensitive should b= e done to handle potential conflicts. Best, Daniel