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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:33:13 -0500
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On 2010-06-01 11:21, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Has anyone taken over maintainership of ocaml?  I seem to remember that we
> had a volunteer a few months back...

I think I scared him away with the details. :-)

> ocaml needs to be updated.  The current version (3.08.1) is several years
> old.  I'm currently trying to build the latest version of Unison, and the
> build is failing.  There are changes in the Unison Makefile that seem to
> use newer features of OCaml, but I can't be sure without trying it on a
> more recent version.

Agreed.  In the meantime, there are packages in Ports, which also 
support stublibs and natdynlink modules:

http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/devel/flexdll/
http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/lang/ocaml/

(There's an interdependency between these two, so you'll want the binary 
packages first, then build flexdll followed by ocaml.)

The binary ocaml-labltk package in Ports uses my *NIX/X11 Tcl/Tk, so it 
can't go straight into the distro as-is, unless we finally make that 
change as well.


Yaakov

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