Friday opam hacking

Useful information

Opam health check filter: http://check.ocamllabs.io/?comp=4.14&comp=5.0&available=4.14&available=5.0&show-only=bad&show-diff-only=true&sort-by-revdeps=true&maintainers=&logsearch=&logsearch_comp=4.14

When fixing a package and after an upstream PR has been open, adding the package(s) to https://github.com/kit-ty-kate/opam-alpha-repository is very much appreciated.
Just call the ./add-pkg.sh script with the package(s) you want to add, modify their src field and remove the checksum and the PR should be good to go.

Opam hacking evening 2022/13/01

Participant list

• octachron

Package under scrutiny

octachron

• talaria_bibtex: the library needs some refactoring, more documentation, and an opam package

Opam package hacking afternoon for OCaml 5: 2022/12/02

Participant list

• octachron
• mseri
• dangdennis

Packages under analysis

dbuenzli

• brr, js_of_ocaml has been updated for 5.0.0 but brr needs a few tweaks and a release to support the latest jsoo version. Will do.

In fact that may not be needed, see this PR on the opam repository. New release still coming though.

octachron

• gsl-ocaml: fix examples
• oasis requires ocamlify: later
• ocamlify use oasis generated files: later
• pgocaml: missing camlp-streams dependency
• camlimages: deprecated functions, dependency on lablgtk

dangdennis

• usb.1.3.1 - Unable to setup local package from source because it uses oasis.
• rlp - wip. depends on rope. uses oasis. would also require strong opinionated choices
• rope - PR opened to alpha opam repo

mseri

• text needs porting from oasis, I cannot do it without some strong opinionated choices and in reasonable time
• gettext: upstream PR #25 #24 and #26

Packages with a pending PR

octachron

• gsl-ocaml : https://github.com/mmottl/gsl-ocaml/pull/36
• pgocaml: https://github.com/darioteixeira/pgocaml/pull/121

Opam package hacking afternoon for OCaml 5: 2022/10/28

Participant list

• octachron
• kit-ty-kate
• gasche

Packages under analysis

octachron:

• gsl
  – many use of the deprecated short name for C FFI functions
  – build fixed, to check many some strange use of global root
  – to check: mixing unix module when linking

Packages with a pending PR

octachron

• codept (version macros and opam constraint)
  – Relaxing the constraint is enough
  – direct opam-repository PR: https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/22400

• phantom-algebra
  – strangely the library is not broken yet
  – but it was still using jbuilder…
  – no more jbuilder version submitted: https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/22405

gasche

• parmap
  https://github.com/rdicosmo/parmap/pull/109
  https://github.com/rdicosmo/parmap/pull/110
• build_path_prefix_map:
  https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/22410

Pre-existing PRs to check out later:

• https://github.com/vbmithr/ocaml-hidapi/pull/2

Packages added to alpha-reposity

Fixed packages