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Re: [ITA] ocaml 3.12.0
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:53:17 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ITA] ocaml 3.12.0
- References: <113A90AF-B2B9-4A12-BB31-D624FE618D87@inria.fr>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sep 6 13:47, Damien Doligez wrote:
> Dear Cygwin packagers,
>
> It looks like the ocaml package is abandoned: the current version
> (OCaml 3.08.1) dates back to 2006, and the listed maintainer is
> Igor Pechtchanski (from before he changed his name).
Yes, Igor is AWOL for quite some time now, unfortunately.
> Unless it is by design that OCaml is held back to an obsolete version,
> I would like to volunteer to take over maintainership.
That would be nice.
> I'm one of the main developers of OCaml, and I've been a cygwin user
> for a few years now. I'm getting tired of reinstalling OCaml by hand
> on every new cygwin I install...
> I have read through the Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide (twice).
>
> This is the contents of my setup.hint file for the updated package,
> mostly unchanged from Igor's version:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> sdesc: "The Objective Caml compiler and runtime"
> ldesc: "Objective Caml is a fast modern type-inferring functional
> programming language descended from the ML (Meta Language)
> family. The OCaml compiler is developed at INRIA's project-team
> Gallium"
> requires: cygwin libncurses7
> category: Interpreters Devel
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
That's ok, but for an ITA you should also provide links to the binary
and source packages. It's hard to check them for correctness otherwise...
Thanks,
Corinna
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