Re: MLton Homebrew package (Mac OS X)?

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Christopher Cramer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 06:13:18PM -0500, Adam Chlipala wrote:
>> The problems that I'm aware of:
>> (1) No one has built a package that builds from source, probably through
>> SML/NJ.  Some Homebrew rule prevents binary-only packages from being
>> blessed to the full degree, so that users can install them easily with
>> single command lines.
>
> I don't think anyone has successfully built MLton from SML/NJ in many
> years. The only way to do it these days is use an already-built MLton
> (if it's an entirely new platform, cross-compiling will work fine).
>
> But MLton is hardly unusual in this respect. SML/NJ requires SML/NJ
> to build. GCC requires GCC to build. How does Homebrew deal with those?

Agreed; we've struggled with the same argument with respect to Debian packaging.

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