Hi Daniel,

I hope I understood your point correctly, but you can already do that : if
your repo is accessible via git, http or rsync protocols any user can use
it simultaneously with ocamlpro's. opam has no problem handling several
repositories and makes a good job of sorting out which repo has the newest
version of a package. In practice it works very well. Details can be found
there: http://opam.ocamlpro.com/doc/Advanced_Usage.html (see Handling of
repositories).

cheers,
  Philippe.

2013/1/18 Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>

> Le vendredi, 18 janvier 2013 à 12:27, Anil Madhavapeddy a écrit :
> > A certain barrier to entry in the early days isn't a bad thing. Homebrew
> seems to cope well enough with this workflow (with over 10,000 forks).
>
> For now my packages where uploaded by a kind contributor (thanks to him)
> but in the future I intend to do so myself and I share Alain Frisch's
> sentiment here.
>
> I also find the github process rather wasteful in terms of energy,
> moreover if a submitted package is rejected or if the pull request gets
> stuck for a while and I need to provide the package to someone else rapidly
> then I'll have to publish it a second time on another repo.
>
> I think it would be easier to tell packagers to provide their own http
> repository and have a simple command in opam that allows to import a
> package from one repository in another.
>
> That way I publish my packages once on a website and it ensures they are
> available whether ocamlpro wants them in their repo or not. I notify
> ocamlpro's repository maintainer (in a way to be specified by him) of the
> existence of the package and he can import it from my repo if he wishes. If
> for some reason the package never makes it in ocamlpro's repository, the
> end-user can just add my repo to its opam install to get it immediatly.
>
> This solves a lot of problems very easily, without wasting too much
> energy, in a distributed manner and without github in the loop.
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
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