On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 01:39:05PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:59:46AM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
> I just noticed that Anaconda in F10 offers a group 'Haskell development'
> under 'Development Tools' - shouldn't there be a similar group for
OCaml
> development ? Has this been discussed in the past ?
>
> Not sure what should go into sucha group, but at a minimum it should
> install ocaml, ocaml-findlib and ocaml-omake - the goal being that the
> group of packages allows me to check out a typical (fsvo typical) OCaml
> project and build/run it right away.
Just by bizarre synchronicity I was thinking the same thing. Or
perhaps it was just because I was editing comps.xml yesterday to add
the MinGW project.
Anyway yes - I'm going to add it right now...
This was the patch I just added (attached).
I didn't want to get into the game of adding every single package[1]
to comps.xml, so I just added a handful of major, commonly used
packages. For now at least.
On your specific point about omake, it's not so widely used. Lots of
packages use ordinary (GNU) make + autoconf. There are also competing
build systems like OCamlMakefile, ocamlbuild, and actually a few more.
(For a minority language, we do have far too many build systems ...)
Rich.
[1]
http://cocan.org/fedora
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