X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:27:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Wei-Hao Lin cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: OCaml package hasn't updated for a while (Ping unison maintainer) In-Reply-To: <8363ea9c0705310635y79e08219wc7a121567c955e16@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <8363ea9c0705230910l252f2216y1ad42c56d7c21c19@mail.gmail.com> <8363ea9c0705310635y79e08219wc7a121567c955e16@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, 31 May 2007, Wei-Hao Lin wrote: > On 5/23/07, Matthew Woehlke wrote: . Thanks. > > Wei-Hao Lin wrote: > > > OCaml 3.10 is just released. The Cygwin ocaml package generously > > > contributed by Igor Pechtchanski in 2004, however, is still 3.08.1. > > > Although OCaml can be compiled under Cygwin without any change, > > > surely it will save some time if OCaml package is updated and made > > > available via Cygwin distribution. > > > > Maintainers Thoughtfully Considered? :-) > > I don't mind maintaining the ocaml package, but I would like to ping > again and see what the current maintainer, Igor Pechtchanski, thinks. Sorry, I meant to reply to your original message, but got bogged down with work... I'm still maintaining O'Caml. It builds OOTB, but lacks some interesting (and important) features. A few of the things I was playing with in my spare time were trying to make O'Caml 1) support dynamic linking/loading on Cygwin (mostly done for 3.08); 2) allow -mno-cygwin like other Cygwin compilers (probably superfluous now, but we may still want to try building a Cygwin->MinGW cross-compiler); and 3) support multiple side-by-side versions (due to binary incompatibility). I haven't had much chance to perfect the build, though (unison had problems with it, and I needed to invest some heavy debugging time I didn't have). In the meantime, 3.09 and 3.10 came out. One problem is that a major client of O'Caml is unison, and, because of binary incompatibility, the releases of O'Caml need to be coordinated with unison. I've added a ping, and we'll see what Andrew says. I'm not familiar enough with O'Caml program dependencies to know whether I can simply provide an older runtime DLL in a separate package or not. There was some discussion of this earlier -- perhaps I should dig in the archives. I'm also ok with transferring maintainership to someone more knowledgeable in O'Caml, provided we can get the level of functionality I originally intended (described above). I can provide a patch for the 3.08 build tree. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/