wrote: >>=20=20 >> the OASIS port is named "caml-oasis". >>=20 >> Please try to transition to the consistent name OCaml, a decision made a= t the 2011 OCaml Users Meeting. Using it in lower case is okay in certain c= ontexts such as a package name, so here I would recommend "ocaml-oasis". >=20 > This is the prefix used within MacPorts to identify OCaml packages. I don= 't know why it isn't ocaml. It's just historical. I imported a bunch of OCaml packages into Macports a = few years ago and preserved the prefix since it wasn't really worth the tro= uble to rename so many ports. I've actually given up on MacPorts and switched to Homebrew recently. They = don't like importing libraries in Homebrew and defer that to the language-s= pecific package manager. I'm hoping that odb will be sufficient to act as = the lightweight library installer to complement Homebrew. The only annoying thing about installing OCaml from source these days is th= e 'compiler-libs' convention that most packages seem to do, but isn't reall= y written down anywhere. Is there a Mantis bug about this one (I couldn't f= ind one)? It's really helpful to get the Lwt toplevel working and isn't ver= y obvious where those files come from without diving into the Debian packag= ing. I've got a small pull request to add it to the Homebrew package at any rate= . Comment on it to give it some life and it might even get merged... https:= //github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/9002 -anil= --Apple-Mail=_F2E13040-61FA-47CE-BED6-5DE8FD82560B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

On 18 Dec 2011, = at 20:01, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

Am 18.12.2011 um= 20:46 schrieb Ashish Agarwal <= agarwal1975@gmail.com>:

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@googlemail.co= m> wrote:

the OASIS port is named "caml-oasis".
=

Please try to transition to the consistent name OCaml, = a decision made at the 2011 OCaml Users Meeting. Using it in lower case is = okay in certain contexts such as a package name, so here I would recommend = "ocaml-oasis".

This is the prefix used within MacPorts to iden= tify OCaml packages. I don't know why it isn't ocaml.

It's just historical. I imported a bunch of OCa= ml packages into Macports a few years ago and preserved the prefix since it= wasn't really worth the trouble to rename so many ports.

I've actually given up on MacPorts and switched to Homebrew recentl= y. They don't like importing libraries in Homebrew and defer that to the la= nguage-specific package manager. I'm hoping that odb will be sufficie= nt to act as the lightweight library installer to complement Homebrew.

The only annoying thing about installing OCaml from so= urce these days is the 'compiler-libs' convention that most packages seem t= o do, but isn't really written down anywhere. Is there a Mantis bug about t= his one (I couldn't find one)? It's really helpful to get the Lwt toplevel = working and isn't very obvious where those files come from without diving i= nto the Debian packaging.

I've got a small pull re= quest to add it to the Homebrew package at any rate. Comment on it to give = it some life and it might even get merged... https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/9002

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