On Mon 20 Sep 2010 11:16 +0200, Simon Legner wrote:

do we really need three packages of the OCaml library ocamlgraph [1]? The packages are all up-to-date, but maintained by three different users. The correctest one according to the specified dependencies IMHO is ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib [2], which also has the minimal code for building the package. What do you think?

I would think the the most correct one should be renamed to ocaml-ocamlgraph, and the rest deleted. You guys can sort that out and report back. Cheers.

On 26/09/10 01:53, Loui Chang wrote:

On Mon 20 Sep 2010 11:16 +0200, Simon Legner wrote:

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do we really need three packages of the OCaml library ocamlgraph [1]? The packages are all up-to-date, but maintained by three different users. The correctest one according to the specified dependencies IMHO is ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib [2], which also has the minimal code for building the package. What do you think?

I would think the the most correct one should be renamed to ocaml-ocamlgraph, and the rest deleted. You guys can sort that out and report back. Cheers.

ocamlgraph[1] has been orphaned, so I suggest first of all to remove it. Then we'll work out which of the other two to keep. /M [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21687 -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 23:12, Simon Legner wrote:

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:38:46 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:

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I'm curious as to why the dependency on findlib is undesirable.

I didn't mean that. It's just that ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib has the simplest build()-code. According to the KISS principle I'd favour that one, if and only if it provides the same functionality (e.g. the META files you mentioned).

Ah, I was unclear in my wording, this question was actually directed to the packager of ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib, more than to you. Nevertheless it's good to know that you aren't opposed to using findlib. Yes, the PKGBUILD in ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib is slightly simpler, but I don't think the one in ocaml-ocamlgraph is complex in any way. There are good reasons for the extra stuff in my PKGBUILD: - the patch is required in order to get findlib to install stuff in the correct place - it seems to be standard now to use both build() and package() for packages where build and install are separate steps - the longer lines for installing is again due to findlib I did compile it yesterday, and noticed that the META files are *not* built in ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib, so on that alone I would argue ocaml-ocamlgraph is the way to go.

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I've added a dependency on lablgtk2 to ocaml-ocamlgraph, so now they match each other in dependencies.  Personally I think a dependency on findlib is desirable so I think ocaml-ocamlgraph is the correctest one, but I'm open to any counter arguments.

I just wanted to find out the differences of files after building the three packages. But unfortunately none of them builds on my machine (x86_64) due to the following error:  File "dgraph/dGraphViewer.ml", line 26, characters 0-11:  Error: Unbound module Dgraph

Interesting and surprising, I just built both versions (with and without findlib) yesterday, both successfully. I'm building in a chroot, on x86_64, so I'm very perplexed by your difficulties. /M -- Magnus Therning                        (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org          Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus         identi.ca|twitter: magthe