Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] beta-release of OPAM

[Alain Frisch <alain@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/18/2013 11:42 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2013, at 10:31, Alain Frisch <alain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Shouldn't the package be called simply "trunk", without a reference to a 
> > version number?
> Yeah, but OPAM also has compiler version constraints, so that you can mark a 
> package as requiring {>=4.00} for example.
Understood.

> $ mkdir -p my-repo/packages
> $ opam remote add localdev my-repo
> <create your package inside my-repo/packages/>
> $ opam update
> <the new packages will be available>
> $ opam install <new-package>
Thanks.  That's what I've done.

I've sent my first "pull request" for the inclusion of a new package in 
OPAM :-)

Are there plans to provide a more direct way to submit proposals for new 
packages?  If I understand correctly, the current scheme requires to 
create an account on github, fork the opam-repository, clone the fork 
locally, create and commit the package locally, push it to github, and 
then create a pull request.  Admittedly, this is not difficult once 
you're familiar with GIT and github, but I can imagine that it will 
still discourage some people from submitting their first package.  What 
about a simple web interface to upload a .tar.gz of the package 
description, for instance?  It should not be too hard to automate the 
treatment of uploaded package descriptions.
Alain