Re: Update Hombrew install instructions on the web site

Thomas Leonard wrote:
>>>> And I don't really want to go through the hassle of having to maintain
>>>> all the dependencies, and update them if there's new versions etc etc.
>>>
>>> Yes, this does seem like an annoying requirement.
>>
>> But seems necessary, like in case of Lwt below ? Should be some way
>> to "pin" opam to use the bundled libraries, if it can't stay offline.
>
> If you delete from opam-repository all the versions you're not using,
> it won't have any choice :-)

Right, but if I just deleted the remote it didn't find anything at all.
Suppose I could do something with the repo, but it is too much hassle.

> Or, you could add some exact version constraints to 0install's opam file.
>
>> I know that I did this for the release, since the "sha" module didn't
>> work with the older SDK (bug filed). Seems missing on Fedora as well ?
>>
>> Will see if I can't get it to install the ones that I provided instead.
>
> You can specify versions like this:
>
> opam install 'lwt=2.5.0'
>
> But it might be easier to 'opam install 0install' and grab the binary
> it produces.

Right, but that's pretty much what we had already before the resources.
And then I still need to move everything out from the $OPAMROOT/system ?


Whatever I try to do with OPAM, it still needs the compilers/packages.

And If I don't use OPAM, then I need to install/maintain everything
myself and keep track of all the silly build'ing variants needed...

The right thing to do seems to be to "pin" every resource, in order.

--anders

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