From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A42F81799 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:25:04 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of sylvain@le-gall.net) identity=pra; client-ip=80.91.229.3; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="gclci-caml-list@m.gmane.org"; x-sender="sylvain@le-gall.net"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of gclci-caml-list@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=80.91.229.3; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="gclci-caml-list@m.gmane.org"; x-sender="gclci-caml-list@m.gmane.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of postmaster@plane.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) identity=helo; client-ip=80.91.229.3; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="gclci-caml-list@m.gmane.org"; x-sender="postmaster@plane.gmane.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiQDACdC8VFQW+UDgWdsb2JhbABagzu/QxYOAQEWJiiCJAEBBYEJCxguEBEbGxmHfgMTCLBiDYhejRWDBYNqA5V2gxKKfog6 X-IPAS-Result: AiQDACdC8VFQW+UDgWdsb2JhbABagzu/QxYOAQEWJiiCJAEBBYEJCxguEBEbGxmHfgMTCLBiDYhejRWDBYNqA5V2gxKKfog6 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.89,744,1367964000"; d="scan'208";a="22259882" Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 25 Jul 2013 17:25:04 +0200 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V2NPb-000503-28 for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:25:03 +0200 Received: from root.ovh.le-gall.net ([37.59.37.175]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:25:03 +0200 Received: from sylvain by root.ovh.le-gall.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1374669368.25411.5@samsung> <1B6BB035-9909-4F0C-9DEA-F713B977A467@ocamlpro.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: root.ovh.le-gall.net User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Subject: [Caml-list] Re: GODI is shutting down On 24-07-2013, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: > On 24 Jul 2013, at 09:36, Gabriel Scherer wrote: > >>> However, the main problem (the one I wanted to point out) still remains: every time you want to fix a constraint you have to change your _oasis, modify the package tarball, and make a new release -- which means you can never fix constraints on already released packages. But I guess in this case, it's fine if the _oasis and OPAM files are not in sync. >> >> You could include a patch against the _oasis file in the OPAM (or >> GODI) metadata. > > That's not enough. You also need a build-time requirement to regenerate > the OASIS autogenerated files by calling 'oasis setup', which increases > the total build time significantly. > > Some projects (such as Mirage) also use a forked OASIS to add some > specialised features in the generated output, and so need special rules > to regenerate them. > Are you talking about the the output-obj ? Your pull request is pending and I am more than willing to integrate it, but given the copyright and license you put, I cannot... Please fix it and stop having a branch of OASIS for that. https://github.com/ocaml/oasis/pull/7 Cheers, Sylvain Le Gall -- Website: http://sylvain.le-gall.net/ OCaml forge: http://forge.ocamlcore.org OCaml blogs: http://planet.ocaml.org