OCaml 4?

[John Marino]

On 11/6/2013 20:38, Michael Grünewald wrote:
> Hi Rui!
> 
> Sorry that I did not take time to answer your previous EMail. It seems
> you did not check outstanding PRs or overlooked this one:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/173364
> 
> In short, there is a candidate upgrade in the ports, since quite a
> while.  While I did not hear anything from committer, I probably need to
> fix that STAGE thing before the port gets checked in.
> 
> Rui Paulo wrote:
>> Any plans to upgrade OCaml in FreeBSD ports?  If you don't have time, I might take a stab at it.
> 
> Three side notes:
> 
> - https://bitbucket.org/michipili/ports-bsd is a bitbucket repo where I
> push my (mostly OCaml) FreeBSD ports before they went in the repo tree.
> If you already have a bitbucket account, consider following this repo to
> get updates. You may check this out if you want to try the port, your
> feedback would be welcome.
> 
> - https://bitbucket.org/michipili/bsdmakepscripts is a bitbucket repo
> for BSD Makefiles useful to develop with OCaml. (Shameless promotion!)
> 
> - It is best to use open channel (like the freebsd-ports@ mailing list),
> because it is archived and indexed, so people sharing your concern get a
> chance to find your question and my answer.
> 




The other thing to note is that DragonFly Ports (dports) has had ocaml 4
and related ocaml upgrades for 9 months.  There's really no need to
reinvent this, just take the dports versions.  I am so glad we didn't
wait around for those PRs.

John