On 2019/04/02 11:50, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 10:41:58 +0100
> Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm also working on a non-April fools joke, which is sufficient
> > metadata in dune to generate reliable openbsd ports. So in a few
> > months, we should be able to type in package names and have
> > reasonable Makefiles output for the ports (including WANTLIB etc).
> > Am doing it for Homebrew and a few other operating systems as well to
> > see if we can sidestep the port maintainer burden somewhat. Unsure
> > yet if it'll be suitable for usage in OpenBSD, but at a minimum it'll
> > generate sufficient scaffolding for a human ports maintainer to tweak
> > for upstreaming.
>
> 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?
>
> Christopher
Adding support to portgen would be ideal ..
Adding something to directly build a package from outside ports
infrastructure is not so good
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