[ocaml-platform] Pcap-related packages in OPAM

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

Thanks for bringing it up.  As you can see, we're lazily evaluating policies in this space :-)

-anil

On 11 Jul 2013, at 09:21, Johan Mazel <johan.mazel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, I just sent this email to expose the problem.
> I do not have a very good understanding of naming policies and so on. So, I think I am way under-qualified to propose a solution.
> From my own point of view, any name would be ok, included the proposed "pcap-format". :)
> Regards.
> Johan
> 
> 
> 2013/7/10 Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain+ocaml at le-gall.net>
> 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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