• Fwd: stan packaging

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Steffen_M=c3=b6ller?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 5 15:10:01 2021
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    Dear OCaml maintainers,

    My last contact with ML was about 30 years ago and, yes, there is a part
    in me that wants to dive back into it, but there are other things that I
    can also do that I can help Debian more with, I think. So, I come here
    to ask for help.

    You may have heard of R and a (fairly) new kid on the block, Julia, and
    there is something in between that is also tantalizingly different such
    that all math environments have interfaces to it: stan
    (https://mc-stan.org).  Now, I did not get too far with my attempt to
    get the command line compiled - the lines below sum this up: I need the ppx_jane package and not unlikely also others that I am not yet aware of.

    Is there someone out there on this list who would like to work on this?

    Many thanks!
    Steffen



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    Betreff: Re: stan packaging
    Datum: Sat, 5 Jun 2021 03:19:47 +0530
    Von: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
    An: Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>
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    On 04/06/21 10:27 PM, Steffen Möller wrote:
    Sigh. cmdstan needs stanc3 (to be packaged) which needs dune (available) which needs https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/ppx_jane/ppx_jane.v0.14.0/
    (to be packaged). This is a bit beyond my  routine.

    Do we have OCaml folks on this list?

    I think it'd be best to ask in https://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/
    It looks doable, can give it a try but the dependency(and transitive)
    list is rather
    huuuge, admittedly

    Nilesh


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    <p>Dear OCaml maintainers,</p>
    <p>My last contact with ML was about 30 years ago and, yes, there is
    a part in me that wants to dive back into it, but there are other
    things that I can also do that I can help Debian more with, I
    think. So, I come here to ask for help.</p>
    <p>You may have heard of R and a (fairly) new kid on the block,
    Julia, and there is something in between that is also
    tantalizingly different such that all math environments have
    interfaces to it: stan (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mc-stan.org">https://mc-stan.org</a>).  Now, I did not get
    too far with my attempt to get the command line compiled - the
    lines below sum this up: I need the ppx_jane package and not
    unlikely also others that I am not yet aware of.</p>
    <p>Is there someone out there on this list who would like to work on
    this?</p>
    <p>Many thanks!<br>
    Steffen<br>
    </p>
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    On 04/06/21 10:27 PM, Steffen Möller wrote:<br>
    <blockquote type="cite">Sigh. cmdstan needs stanc3 (to be
    packaged) which needs dune (available)<br>
    which needs
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/ppx_jane/ppx_jane.v0.14.0/">https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/ppx_jane/ppx_jane.v0.14.0/</a><br>
    (to be packaged). This is a bit beyond my  routine.<br>
    <br>
    Do we have OCaml folks on this list?<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    I think it'd be best to ask in
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/">https://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/</a><br>
    It looks doable, can give it a try but the dependency(and
    transitive) list is rather<br>
    huuuge, admittedly<br>
    <br>
    Nilesh<br>
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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?St=c3=a9phane_Glondu?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 18 13:40:02 2021
    Hello,

    Le 05/06/2021 à 14:51, Steffen Möller a écrit :
    You may have heard of R and a (fairly) new kid on the block, Julia, and
    there is something in between that is also tantalizingly different such
    that all math environments have interfaces to it: stan (https://mc-stan.org).  Now, I did not get too far with my attempt to
    get the command line compiled - the lines below sum this up: I need the ppx_jane package and not unlikely also others that I am not yet aware of.

    Is there someone out there on this list who would like to work on this?

    ppx_jane is a sort of meta-package depending on many Jane Street's ppx rewriters. Jane Street tend to release many small packages. Those are
    generally easy to debianize, but it often happens that they must be
    updated in lockstep. That and their number make their maintenance
    impractical.

    Installing ppx_jane in a clean opam environment brings 24 packages that
    are not in Debian. All of them except octavius are Jane Street packages versioned v0.14.x. Packaging (and maintaining the packages) sounds like
    a big effort, at least with the way we do things at the moment. But
    things certainly could be improved.


    Cheers,

    --
    Stéphane

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