From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, <pukkamustard@posteo.net>
Subject: Re: Time for ocaml-xzy.scm and reorganizing OCaml packages?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:20:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230111212027.163f1ea5@sybil.lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861qo051t5.fsf@gmail.com>
Le Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:05:58 +0100,
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Maybe it is time for ocaml-xzy.scm. :-)
>
> Currently, the file gnu/packages/ocaml.scm contains 315 define-public.
> Maybe, it would make sense to have:
>
> + ocaml.scm for compiler and essentials (as ocaml-findlib or dune)
> + ocaml-xyz.scm for ocaml-<foo> packages
> + ocaml-apps.scm for standalone program written in OCaml as unison,
> ocamlmod, etc
> + ocaml-legacy.scm for the old ocaml4.0x things
>
> WDYT?
Sounds good to me. Are you planning to work on a patch?
>
> Well, with the question of the new ocaml5 thing. :-)
>
> Trying to package some OCaml, I note that the OCaml package named
> camlzip is not prefixed with ’ocaml-’ although it can only be used as
> a library, IIUC.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ tree $(guix build camlzip)
> /gnu/store/r7p7azlfwrjs5c6kbwb50pvlqxi4k776-camlzip-1.11
> ├── bin
> ├── lib
> │ └── ocaml
> │ └── site-lib
> │ ├── camlzip
> │ │ └── META
> │ └── zip
> │ ├── dllcamlzip.so
> │ ├── gzip.cmi
> │ ├── gzip.cmt
> │ ├── gzip.cmti
> │ ├── gzip.cmx
> │ ├── gzip.mli
> │ ├── libcamlzip.a
> │ ├── META
> │ ├── zip.a
> │ ├── zip.cma
> │ ├── zip.cmi
> │ ├── zip.cmt
> │ ├── zip.cmti
> │ ├── zip.cmx
> │ ├── zip.cmxa
> │ ├── zip.cmxs
> │ ├── zip.mli
> │ ├── zlib.cmi
> │ ├── zlib.cmt
> │ ├── zlib.cmti
> │ ├── zlib.cmx
> │ └── zlib.mli
> └── share
> └── doc
> └── camlzip-1.11
> └── LICENSE
>
> 9 directories, 24 files
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Moreover, “guix import opam -r camlzip” returns,
>
> (define-public ocaml-camlzip
> (package
> (name "ocaml-camlzip")
>
> Well, therefore I would be expecting ocaml-camlzip to be consistent
> with the Guix naming convention. And with this large
> gnu/packages/ocaml.scm file containing all the OCaml related stuff, I
> am guessing that it’s time to reorganize a bit. WDYT?
We can rename camlzip :)
>
> Cheers,
> simon
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2023-01-11 19:05 Time for ocaml-xzy.scm and reorganizing OCaml packages? Simon Tournier
2023-01-11 20:20 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2023-01-17 22:14 ` Simon Tournier
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