Hi all, I got looking into this because of these review requests: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235804 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235805 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235815 And I've come to the conclusion that we need some kinda ocaml packaging guidelines. Interesting with regards to this are: http://docs.pld-linux.org/ocaml.html http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ocaml_packaging_policy.txt Which are PLD resp debian ocaml guidelines. And they seem to agree on most things. Notice that I've exactly 0 experience in packaging or writing caml software, this is all based on common sense and my observations with the 3 packages above. OCaml Guidelines ================ Naming ------ OCaml modules / libs should be named ocaml-foo. (This does not apply to applications written in caml). Rationale: this is how they are named in other distros (Debian, PLD) and this is consistent with perl / php / python. -devel sub-packages ------------------- OCaml software can either be byte compiled, in which case it will need the ocaml runtime and besides the runtime only the files installed by libs / modules under /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs (the ocaml byte code from libs gets staticly linked into the bytecode-"executable"_. Or they can be compiled to native code in which case all caml specific libs / bindings get staticly linked into the executable (wrapped libraries themself will still be dynamicly linked, but the wrapper code is linked staticly into the executable, this can not be changed). Thus for ocaml modules / lib(wrapper)s, in the case of byte compiled ocaml programs only the files under /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs from the module/lib are needed, and to run a compiled program nothing from the module/lib is needed. So only the files under /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs should be in the mainpackage, and if there are no such files (in case of a pure caml module / lib) then the mainpackage should have an empty %files. All other files should go in a -devel package as they are only needed to compile and no to run ocaml programs. Unnecessary files ----------------- This is taken from: http://docs.pld-linux.org/ocaml.html Following files should NOT be distributed: - *.cmo object files. There is however one exception -- if file is needed for link (like gtkInit.cmo in lablgtk or std_exit.cmo in OCaml itself), then it should be of course included. - *.o for corresponding *.cmx. They are included in *.a anyway. Exception -- as above. - *.ml sources. - *.mli interface sources. However, if package lacks any documentation (which is unfortunately often the case), you can include *.mli, but it should be gziped and placed in package as %doc. Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
