[Caml-list] GODI available for O'Caml 3.10.1
Gerd Stolpmann
the GODI distribution of OCaml is now officially available for OCaml
version 3.10.1. This is the first official release for an OCaml version
of the 3.10 series - due to the camlp4 transition we've waited quite
long before doing so in order to give all developers a chance to port
their code to the new camlp4 style. Unfortunately, this transition isn't
complete yet, so not all packages of the 3.09 release are available for
the 3.10 release (see list below). We encourage skilled users to help
out.
You can get this release by either upgrading an existing GODI
installation, or by doing a fresh install. If upgrading, some special
attention is required, however.
A list of packages is available in the web, see the link on the GODI
homepage: http://godi.ocaml-programming.de/index.html
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Doing a fresh install of OCaml 3.10.1 with GODI
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- Download the bootstrap tarball from
http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/godi-bootstrap-20080118.tar.gz
(This link is published on the GODI homepage.)
- Extract the tarball:
tar xzf godi-bootstrap-20080118.tar.gz
- Do the first stage of the bootstrap:
cd godi-bootstrap-20080118
./bootstrap --prefix <somedir>
where <somedir> may be an arbitrary, not yet existing directory
(please _don't_ use /usr or /usr/local)
- Add <somedir>/bin and <somedir>/sbin to PATH
PATH=<somedir>/bin:<somedir>/sbin:$PATH
export PATH
- Do the second stage of the bootstrap:
./bootstrap_stage2
For the second stage you need an Internet connection.
- Run godi_console to install libraries and applications!
Links for troubleshooting etc.: see below.
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Upgrading an existing GODI installation to OCaml 3.10.1
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Edit godi.conf. This file is usually installed as
<prefix>/etc/godi.conf. Set GODI_SECTION to 3.10, e.g.
change the line
GODI_SECTION=3.09
to
GODI_SECTION=3.10
Run godi_console, and "Update the list of packages". Then "Select source
packages", and "upgrade all" with 'u'. Finally, type 's' to start the
installation, and 'o' to commit this action.
Note that you'll run into an error if you have some package installed
that is not (yet) available for OCaml 3.10.1. The error is usually
cryptic, but indicates a "Version conflict".
If you select the packages to upgrade manually, make sure you always
select godi-ocaml and godi-ocaml-src. Otherwise, the upgrade won't
happen.
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Packages not yet available
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The following packages are not (yet) available:
godi-col, godi-heredoc, godi-json-static, godi-micmatch_pcre,
godi-pa_arg, godi-camlp4-manual, godi-galax,
godi-ocamlduce, /godi-ocamlducebazar.
The following packages have intentionally been deleted, because we have
replacements:
godi-equeue, godi-equeue-gtk1, godi-equeue-gtk2, godi-equeue-tcl,
godi-netclient, godi-shell, godi-rpc, godi-wlex.
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Resources
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Documentation is available here:
http://godi.ocaml-programming.de/doclinks.html
On the right navigation bar on this page, you can also find links for
the mailing list, the bug tracker, and the subversion repository.
Have a lot of fun,
Gerd
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Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany
ge...@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de
Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714
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