Re: [Caml-list] opam and godi

["Gerd Stolpmann" <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013, Francois Berenger wrote:
>> On 07/22/2013 03:55 PM, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >   Looking only at the number of packages available in the
>> repositories,
>> >Opam has around 400 packages while Godi has around 170 packages. Also,
>> >Opam can use "aspcud" to compute the minimal number of changes when
>> >installing/updating, which can make a big difference when dependency
>> >constraints between packages become hard to solve. I also like the
>> >interface "à la apt-get", compared to the curses interface that I used
>> >with Godi.
>>
>> I also like the apt-get/aptitude style of OPAM command lines.
>>
>> As an impatient user, I also feel that OPAM is way faster than GODI.
>
> As far as I can tell, godi_console is now a native-compiled executable
> while it used to be byte-compiled before.
> This has made it *WAY* faster (at least 5 times faster according to my
> testing earlier). I really hated these 10-15 seconds of waiting.

Actually, this is fixed since I did a performance audit, giving special
attention to such problems. The natively-compiled command has always been
built, but the bug was that it wasn't installed :-(. Also, there is now
better caching of package scanning results.

Gerd
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