On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 08:42:40PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Richard - > > Apparently plplot is shifting to using > https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-cairo for it ocaml cairo bindings. > It is known by "cairo2" on opam. plplot appears to be the only user > of ocaml-cairo. Do you have any thoughts about > swapping/replacing/etc. ? NB: I'm CC'ing this to the devel mailing list in case anyone is using the old ocaml-cairo package. The facts seem to be: - cairo itself still only has version 1.x releases - as you say above, in Fedora only plplot requires ocaml-cairo - the ocaml-cairo bindings we currently use (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo-ocaml/) have not been touched upstream for ~ 3 years - the ocaml-cairo bindings from https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-cairo are as far as I can tell a complete rewrite, and not in any way backwards compatible - https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-cairo seems to be reasonably active upstream - Debian is still packaging http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo-ocaml/ only So I believe in this case, unless anyone objects, we should simply replace the upstream of the ocaml-cairo package with https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-cairo I _don't_ think we need to rename the package nor create a new ocaml-cairo2 package, because (a) only OPAM is using the "cairo2" name and (b) it's going to confuse the heck out of everyone because they'll think cairo itself has been rewritten. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
