[Bug 435431] Review Request: ocaml-deriving - Extension to OCaml for deriving functions from types

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Summary: Review Request: ocaml-deriving - Extension to OCaml for deriving functions from types


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435431





------- Additional Comments From rjones at redhat.com  2008-05-12 06:49 EST -------
License:

Yes, it's MIT.  Particularly stupid on my part because I even asked upstream to
release a new version (0.1.1a) with the license file included, but then I forgot to
fix my spec file :-(

Lack of *.cmo file:

This is a one-of-a-kind upstream.  Normal syntax extensions are loadable
object files (*.cmo) so they get loaded into the normal OCaml parser at compile
time.  The object files consist of a list of instructions for the parser, like 'add this
keyword', 'delete this parsing rule', 'substitute this other parsing rule'.  This
means that syntax extensions are composable (you can use more than one at
a time).

But for this one, upstream have linked the syntax extension to a standalone
program (/usr/bin/deriving) which one is supposed to use as a preprocessor
(it takes OCaml + deriving syntax and emits basic OCaml).

I've just realised that this is not a smart upstream choice because it prevents
the syntax from being composable with other syntaxes, so you cannot
mix the deriving syntax with any other syntax extension.

Here's a new package:

Spec URL: http://www.annexia.org/tmp/ocaml/ocaml-deriving.spec
SRPM URL: http://www.annexia.org/tmp/ocaml/ocaml-deriving-0.1.1a-3.fc9.src.rpm

* Mon May 10 2008 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> - 0.1.1a-3
- Fix the License tag (MIT not BSD).

 * Wed Mar  5 2008 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> - 0.1.1a-2
 - Remove ExcludeArch ppc64.

Koji scratch build:
  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=604494

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