Re: Update Hombrew install instructions on the web site

On 2 August 2015 at 23:12, Anders F Björklund <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> So the whole idea of "locally vendoring" the opam modules sounds
>> like it won't work. OPAM is too high-level, and too "easy-to-use".
>>
>> And the whole artificial problem isn't worthy of solving anyway.
>>
>>
>> The two reasonable solutions is either to require (depends_on)
>> the modules, and the user uses opam. Or just use "opam install".
>>
>> And since neither is "allowed" by the upstream, there just won't
>> be any binary package. Current build instructions will have to do.
>>
>
> Hmm, maybe I spoke too soon. I think this is a nice compromise:
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/compare/master...afb:0install
>
> It will allow you to install the latest and greatest from 0install
> and from OPAM, or it will resource the modules at time of release:
>
> 484K    zero-install-2.8.tar.bz2
> 24K     zero-install--biniou-1.0.9.tar.gz
> 24K     zero-install--cppo-1.1.2.tar.gz
> 16K     zero-install--easy-format-1.0.2.tar.gz
> 72K     zero-install--extlib-1.6.1.tar.gz
> 808K    zero-install--lablgtk-2.18.3.tar.gz
> 304K    zero-install--lwt-2.4.6.tar.gz
> 108K    zero-install--ocurl-0.7.2.tar.gz
> 104K    zero-install--ounit-2.0.0.tar.gz
> 92K     zero-install--react-1.2.0.tar.gz
> 16K     zero-install--sha-1.9.tar.gz
> 52K     zero-install--xmlm-1.2.0.tar.gz
> 28K     zero-install--yojson-1.1.8.tar.gz
> 2.1M    total
>
> In the end, it was just about telling opam which versions to use...
> It will still try to download any missing parts, so that it works.
>
> And now it is easy to update the modules, for 0install 2.9 and on.
> Since they are all statically linked, no need to "vendor" anything.
>
>
> This variant should be able to make it into the official brew repo ?
> The linuxbrew install is reasonable, so the bottles should be small.
>
> $ brew install 0install
> Cellar/zero-install/2.8: 34 files, 11M, built in 107 seconds
>
> --anders
>
>
> PS. In the end I made do without any fancy opam scripts.
> Just reset the opam-repository to the time of release...

Looks good :-)


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