Re: [PATCH 0/15]: Add pplacer and OCaml dependencies.

[Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>]

Hi Ludo,

On 10/02/17 08:32, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> skribis:
>
>> I'm quite happy to send these patches in, pplacer has been near the
>> top of my most wanted list since I started contributing. There's two
>> parts that are a little out of the ordinary:
>>
>> 1) Unfortunately pplacer requires the outdated OCaml 4.01, so I
>> adapted the package-with-python2 approach.
> Is there really no way upstream could update the package to current
> OCaml?  That would save us a lot of packages and associated work.

I'm afraid I don't think so. I asked about this, but haven't received a 
response for 3 weeks.
https://github.com/matsen/pplacer/issues/354

The recommended way of installing this software is to download binaries, 
so updating the OCaml dependency may not be at the top of the priority 
list. This is maintained software and there's a number of pieces of 
software which rely on pplacer (including a few of my own), so I think 
it is worth packaging. So, IMO we should wear the costs on this one.

ben