On 2019/04/02 11:50, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 10:41:58 +0100 > Anil Madhavapeddy <a...@recoil.org> wrote: > > > I’m also working on a non-April fools joke, which is sufficient > > metadata in dune to generate reliable openbsd ports. So in a few > > months, we should be able to type in package names and have > > reasonable Makefiles output for the ports (including WANTLIB etc). > > Am doing it for Homebrew and a few other operating systems as well to > > see if we can sidestep the port maintainer burden somewhat. Unsure > > yet if it’ll be suitable for usage in OpenBSD, but at a minimum it’ll > > generate sufficient scaffolding for a human ports maintainer to tweak > > for upstreaming. > > That's an interesting idea, I also thought about, but was wondering > whether to generate the port from OPAM metadata or create a package > from opam builds. This would obviously not integrate with the ports > infrastructure. But would it even need to? > > Christopher
Adding support to portgen would be ideal .. Adding something to directly build a package from outside ports infrastructure is not so good
