Re: pkg/54695: MLDonkey Does Not Build

[Germain Le Chapelain <germain%lanvaux.fr@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/54695; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Germain Le Chapelain <germain%lanvaux.fr@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>, pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Jaap Boender
 <jaapb%kerguelen.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/54695: MLDonkey Does Not Build
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:08:10 -0800

 Thank you so much for attending my problem David!
 
 On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:05:02 +0000 (UTC)
 David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  Do you use mldonkey? Is it worth patching harder? When I did the above
 >  it seemed pretty dead upstream, it had been broken for some time, and
 >  it wasn't clear that anyone was using it.
 
 No, MLDonkey is not dead.  I was wondering the same: 
 
 I had been using it for nearly a decade straight.
 I barely update (neither the OS nor the packages.) 
 
 I think I did it once and that very same problem already happened (and triggered your change.  Thank you for that again btw!)
 
 
 I think the software is just done (I.e. completed.) It does everything it needs to do.
 What's not is OCaml, and that I have a vibe it never will be.
 
 >  One of the various downsides of using ocaml 
 
 Yes, I don't know what to say.
 
 Interesting problem indeed :) :)  Bc the language definitely serves a purpose for which it is unique:
 It is like the C of functional languages (or more so C++.)
 
   
 >   > ...
 >  
 >  This sounds like something you should file a separate PR on ;-)
 
 I will. I am staggering my PRs. ;)
 
 >  Let me know when it's out. If you would like to prepare an update,
 >  that'd be great.
 
 I will !  As well as keeping on taking a look at what I can do (since I am obviously the one guy using MLDonkey from pkgsrc):
 
 MLDonkey guy also said Debian uses his own Github as their source (as opposed to the release from the MLDonkey project's Github.)
 
 I *think* we can make pkgsrc tap into that.
 
 
 Kind regards,
 
 Germain
 (I included Jaap who had replied on the thread in NetBSD-users)
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 Germain Le Chapelain <germain.lechapelain%lanvaux.fr@localhost>
 Software Engineer
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