From: "Török Edwin" <edwin+ml-ocaml@etorok.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Anybody interested in creating binary RPMs for each official release of the compiler?
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:36:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53307B19.9090907@etorok.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140324110207.GA18751@annexia.org>
On 03/24/2014 01:02 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 06:15:50PM +0900, Francois Berenger wrote:
>> On 03/24/2014 05:33 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:41:20AM +0900, Francois Berenger wrote:
>>>> I'm always annoyed when I have to wait ~20mn to install OCaml on a machine.
>>>>
>>>> Nowadays, thanks to OPAM, I think only a compiler is needed to
>>>> bootstrap quickly an OCaml environment for developers.
>>>
>>> Binary RPMs for which distro?
>>
>> I am personally interested into:
>>
>> CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
>> CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
>>
>> But ideally, any rpm-based distro should have access
>> to the recent OCaml compilers, I fell (or I am just dreaming).
>
> We have to stick with the original OCaml compiler on RHEL releases
> because of binary compatibility. Also EPEL policy doesn't allow us to
> ship an upgrading OCaml compiler in EPEL, since we can't replace
> packages from the original RHEL.
What if you use a different package name?
Apparently there are some RPMs for CentOS6 called ocaml4-*:
http://pkgs.org/search/?query=ocaml4&type=smart
Best regards,
--Edwin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-24 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-24 1:41 Francois Berenger
2014-03-24 8:33 ` Richard W.M. Jones
[not found] ` <532FF7C6.8010608@riken.jp>
[not found] ` <20140324110120.GM3162@annexia.org>
2014-03-24 11:02 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-03-24 18:36 ` Török Edwin [this message]
2014-03-24 22:18 ` Richard W.M. Jones
[not found] ` <5330B457.6010309@etorok.net>
2014-03-25 8:41 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-03-29 21:08 ` Florian Weimer
2014-03-31 1:22 ` Francois Berenger
2014-03-31 6:02 ` Stéphane Glondu
2014-03-26 1:13 ` Francois Berenger
2014-03-26 16:57 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2014-03-27 2:32 ` Francois Berenger
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