On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 04:47:32PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The story with this package (and I think there were some others) is > > that they are required for 'opam' which is a source-based OCaml > > packaging tool (think: Perl and the ‘cpan’ command). Jon Ludlam > > turned up wanting to get opam into Fedora. > > > > Although opam modules "compete" in some sense with the Fedora ocaml-* > > RPMs we create, there are slightly different use cases because opam > > can access development versions of OCaml which we don't tend to > > package, and it also confines itself to the user's home directory, so > > I don't think there's anything particularly wrong about this. However > > Jon did then disappear before we got all the opam dependencies into > > Fedora, so that was that. > > That's actually why I stumbled across it; I just started using OCaml > for a new project a few days ago and was disappointed that opam was > still not in Fedora, so I decided to investigate what would be > required to make it happen. I assumed it would probably be safe to > resubmit the other reviews (which I may do over the next few weeks as > time permits), but I wasn't sure what to do about this one. Thanks for > clarifying! Please CC me on the review bugs and I'll try to review them. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
