[opam-devel] opam installext packaged up

[Louis Gesbert]

Let's synchronize our efforts! I've been doing the same but in OCaml recently; not handling as many archs though.

https://github.com/AltGr/opam-installext

Le 28 décembre 2014 06:06:50 UTC+09:00, Peter Zotov <whitequark at whitequark.org> a écrit :
>On 2014-12-28 00:01, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>> On 27 Dec 2014, at 19:36, Peter Zotov <whitequark at whitequark.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2014-12-27 22:20, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I've been cleaning up some of the bulk building infrastructure, and
>
>>>> so
>>>> have packaged up opam-installext into an OPAM package as Thomas
>>>> Gazagnaire suggested a while back:
>>>> https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/3296
>>> 
>>> Nice! The next step is tighter integration with OPAM...
>> 
>> Yep -- I just wanted to get all the hacky shell script and OS distro
>> detection stuff into a package first, since that will really benefit
>> from a wider contribution base.  I couldn't find anything out there
>> for doing distro detection from shell scripts -- does anyone know of
>> an existing tool to replace the `configure` script in
>opam-installext?
>
>To my knowledge, the mechanism you're using is about the best you can 
>do.