On 2014/01/02, Edvard Fagerholm wrote:

Hi,

I need to learn OCaml properly for a project and bought the new Real World OCaml book. Since Fedora doesn't have the Jane Street Core libraries included, which is used throughout RWO, I made packages for them using ocaml-sexplib.spec as a model (so hopefully they follow the packaging standards, since I'm quite a noob). All the packages can be found here:

http://hans.math.upenn.edu/~edvardf/fedora-ocaml/

They seem to work properly, but I haven't had time to write the %description and Summary for some of the files. In particular, I do not know what they all do and the sources lack descriptions. I would appreciate it if someone is willing to help go through the files and add appropriate descriptions where needed and mail me patches.

Unless it's a deliberate decision to exclude these libraries from Fedora, I'm happy to push them into Bugzilla once descriptions and summaries are in order and maintain them. This is much less painful for me than having to deal with OPAM.

Note also that both ocaml-bin-prot and ocaml-bin-sexplib are updated here to the newest upstream version.

Any comments are appreciated.

Best, Edvard

Hi Edvard,

A lazy way could be to just leech these missing elements from Mageia Linux, as for example:

http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/ocaml-comparelib/current/SPECS/oc...

An index of *some* ocaml packages available in some ocaml distributions exists there: http://www.linux-nantes.org/~fmonnier/ocaml/trans-pkg/trans-pkg.html

Happy leeching! Florent