[ocaml-platform] Pcap-related packages in OPAM

[Sylvain Le Gall]

In Debian we have a loose 'naming' policy for that:
http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ocaml_packaging_policy.html/c305.html

Most of the time, we decide to consider that a library ocaml-blah
provides blah if the findlib name is blah. In this case we name the
package libblah-ocaml-dev.

Basically we are considering that findlib names are unique and we map
to them. As a matter of fact this make sense and if you have a naming
problem it probably means that you cannot install both library at the
same time ! (because findlib will be confused if two different
libraries have the same name).

Althought these are guidelines and not really enforced.

2013/7/10 Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org>:
> Hi Johan, David,
>
> The existing OPAM policy is simply to package by consensus.  If you could
> both agree on suitable and unique names and submit a pull request or issue
> to http://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository, we will merge the changes
> into the stable repository.
>
> The same issue has come up with a couple of other packages (such as
> openflow, or vhd as David points out).  It would be good to distinguish
> them with a prefix less generic than "ocaml-" if possible.  For example,
> if Dave's pcap bindings are just the format and not the library, it might
> be appropriate to call it pcap-format.
>
> best,
> Anil
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 08:01:46AM +0100, David Scott wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a pattern we should apply more generally? I know of two other
>> packages which both implement functions to read/write .vhd format disk
>> files. One is a binding to a C lib "vhd" and the other is a pure ocaml
>> implementation of the spec. They have disjoint feature sets, so both are
>> useful. Initially both were just called "vhd" in opam. Since then the C
>> binding one was renamed "libvhd" IIRC.
>>
>> I'm happy to rename the ocaml-pcap to whatever makes the most sense.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, Johan Mazel wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>> > There currently is an OPAM package called pcap based on ocaml-pcap (
>> > https://github.com/djs55/ocaml-pcap).
>> > However, the OCaml binbings to libpcap have the same name: pcap. These
>> > bindings are still relevant because they provides bindings to live capture
>> > on network interface.
>> >
>> > Would it be possible to change the current OPAM package to something else
>> > like cstruct-pcap ? It would allow one to install both packages in OPAM.
>> > Regards.
>> > Johan Mazel
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave Scott
>
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