From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15]: Add pplacer and OCaml dependencies. Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 21:51:35 +1000 Message-ID: <5c839114-e4d6-41b2-5b18-fd4d459d56e6@uq.edu.au> References: <9e1d5f35-c6dc-e55f-dbb2-2649ba5843df@uq.edu.au> <87wpczatcg.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42859) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjPGu-0005Kf-Lu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 06:51:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjPGr-00042c-KP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 06:51:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wpczatcg.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= , Ben Woodcroft Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Hi Ludo, On 10/02/17 08:32, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Ben Woodcroft 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 1) Unfortunately pplacer requires the outdated OCaml 4.01, so I 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=20 response for 3 weeks. https://github.com/matsen/pplacer/issues/354 The recommended way of installing this software is to download binaries,=20 so updating the OCaml dependency may not be at the top of the priority=20 list. This is maintained software and there's a number of pieces of=20 software which rely on pplacer (including a few of my own), so I think=20 it is worth packaging. So, IMO we should wear the costs on this one. ben