Re: More OCaml ports for /dev/null?

On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 12:58:28PM -0400, Daniel Jakots wrote:

> > That's an interesting idea, I also thought about, but was wondering
> > whether to generate the port from OPAM metadata or create a package
> > from opam builds. This would obviously not integrate with the ports
> > infrastructure. But would it even need to?

> You can look at sysutils/upt. It's not something specific for OpenBSD.
> It works with "frontends" (language-specific packages systems, cpan pip
> etc) and "backends" (OS-specific packages systems). There's already an
> OpenBSD backend so you need to only add a ocaml frontend.

> I used it for python ports and it does a lot of the grunt work.

I'll also weigh in and say that upt works well. danj put me onto it and
I've used it to generate new python ports from pypi.

--Kurt