[CentOS-devel] RFC: OCaml SIG

[Honza Horak]

On 12/09/2014 12:10 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
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> On 12/08/2014 04:52 PM, Jon Ludlam wrote:
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>> I've had a go at making an SCL of the latest OCaml release, which
>> seems to be working OK so far. I'd quite like to get some feedback,
>> to see if I'm going about things the right way. The SPECS and
>> SOURCES are on github: https://github.com/jonludlam/ocaml4021-buildroot
>> and I've been building for CentOS 7 and 6 on copr:
>> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jonludlam/ocaml4021/
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>> Comments and bug reports very welcome!

Hi Jon,

great to see a new SCL, good work! I have couple of notes for 
consideration..

* the collection name looks like it includes minor version of ocaml as 
well; might be correct, depending on ocaml versioning policy, but 
generally the version should only use the part of the version that 
likely changes if some incompatible change comes -- thus e.g. for python 
we only use two numbers (python27), not three (python274), since the 
latest bugfix release do not include incompatible changes and we can 
update them

* then I see couple of provides that do not include scl version, e.g.: 
ocaml(Ssl_threads) = 9925dd2c278261461f67ee0f74f4149a
I guess it means that some non-SCL ocaml package could be satisfied with 
SCL package, which doesn't feel right. We rather require sclname in all 
provides somehow

Honza

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> Excellent! We're working out the details for getting the scl.org folks
> set up. Once we have the basics in place, it would be great to have this
> pulled in. In the mean time, we can certainly kick the packages around a
> bit. Thanks very much for this.
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