[opam-devel] ocaml on centos 6.5

[Dave Scott]

Hi,

On 22 May 2014, at 10:40, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> wrote:

> I noticed on Paolo's blog that OCaml ships with an ancient version of OCaml (3.11.x)
> http://www.donadeo.net/post/2014/installing-opam-1-1-1-on-a-cenos-6-5
> 
> Jon, Dave, I believe that the CentOS Xen uses a newer version -- are there RPMs available somewhere for CentOS 6.5 that could be used to get OPAM into the distribution there?

We’re using unofficial newer RPMs for our stuff; CentOS itself is still using the old RHEL6 versions.

I think it would make sense to propose an “OCaml software collection”[1] which would contain at least a newer compiler and opam, which could be installed alongside the old version. They’ve already done this for python I notice.

Dave

[1] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL