[Caml-list] OPAM: installing batteries pa_strings.

[Caml-list] OPAM: installing batteries pa_strings.

[Ivan Gotovchits]

It seems that I'm the only person in the Internet having such problem.

I do
$ opam install batteries
$ find -name 'pa_string*'

Nothing is found.

Batteries says nothing bad when installing everything seems work ok,
except that no pa_ modules are installed. Though batteries.cma and
batteriesThread.cma are installed...


What am I doing wrong?

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Re: [Caml-list] OPAM: installing batteries pa_strings.

[Gabriel Scherer]

Due to maintainance problems and lack of apparent interest among
users, Batteries 2.0 release got rid of its syntax extensions. See the
announcement here:
  https://lists.forge.ocamlcore.org/pipermail/batteries-devel/2012-November/001762.html

If you care about any of the syntax extensions that were present, I
recommend that you package them separately.

Max Mouratov has kindly done the work of packaging pa_where and
pa_comprehension, providing OASIS metada for them on the developer
side (which should make easy to deploy and install them on any system)
- https://bitbucket.org/cakeplus/pa_where/src
- https://bitbucket.org/cakeplus/pa_comprehension/src
and OPAM packages on the packaging side (which makes them practically
easy to install through OPAM)
- https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository/tree/master/packages/pa_comprehension.0.4
- https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository/tree/master/packages/pa_where.0.4

I'm not aware of ongoing work to package pa_string, but reusing the
OASIS and OPAM metadata of those two extensions should make that very
easy.

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ivan Gotovchits <ivg@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> It seems that I'm the only person in the Internet having such problem.
>
> I do
> $ opam install batteries
> $ find -name 'pa_string*'
>
> Nothing is found.
>
> Batteries says nothing bad when installing everything seems work ok,
> except that no pa_ modules are installed. Though batteries.cma and
> batteriesThread.cma are installed...
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
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Re: [Caml-list] OPAM: installing batteries pa_strings.

[Ivan Gotovchits]

Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not aware of ongoing work to package pa_string, but reusing the
> OASIS and OPAM metadata of those two extensions should make that very
> easy.

Indeed, I was looking for a pa_comprehension, but noted pa_string because
it was easier to type)). A META file in batteries 2.0 distribution, that
still mentions "syntax" subpackage has confused me. 

Thanks for the help!