Ocaml ports needs love

b.f. bf1783 at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 27 13:09:35 UTC 2013


>I received a lot of complaint about ocaml being in a bad shape: lang/ocaml being
>outdated, lots of ocaml ports not being carefully maintained and updated.
>
>I personnally know nothing about ocaml so I'm not able to actually be helpful to
>improve the situation, I would love to see people taking the task of cleaning up
>the situation, bringing up ocaml ports to newer version.
>
>Probably creating a ocaml@ team would be a good idea?

Have these people been talking to the maintainers, or those
responsible for outstanding PRs?  Because I've only had two inquiries
in the past several months.  There were a few delays as maintainership
passed from stas to new volunteers, the pre-release freeze was
drawn-out, some upstream bugs were fixed, and while other changes
(like tcl/tk) were made. But I expect that the new ocaml will be done
soon (right after an update of lablgtk2) , and Michael Grunewald has
been active. An ocaml alias and mailing list might help at least for
the unmaintained ports, and as a place for discussions.

b.


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