Hello Andreas, > I assume the mcl development is really stalled. But I'd love to see a > discussion between upstream and the maintainer of the 12-068 fork > whether they could settle with a common code base which also includes > the OCaml support. May be the first step could be to open an issue > at [1] and ask for updating the code base? I will open an issue with [1] and see if I can suggest and co-ordinate for a common code base, that of the latest mcl release that's been packaged. > Thanks a lot for your investigation. No problem :) Kind regards, Shayan Doust On 29/05/2020 11:08, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Shayan, > > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote: >> I had a look at the currently packaged mcl and the mcl clone (the one >> with the bindings on github). >> >> The mcl[1] clone seems to be a lot older than the debian packaged; >> looking at the _oasis file it seems like the version is 12-068~oasis4 >> compared to the packaged one which is 1:14-137. This means that the mcl >> clone would actually be in sync and would be built on top of presumably >> this debian mcl state[2] which is 8 years old. I'm worried about any >> incompatibilities should the code base or the pristine tarball now >> reflect the mcl clone instead. > > I confirm that > > https://github.com/fhcrc/mcl/blob/master/VERSION > > says "12-068" which is actually the 8 years old state. In Debian we > upgraded to version "14-137". I wonder whether the author of the clone > could try to re-check the code base? > >> Any suggestions as to how I can go forward and incorporate this >> OCaml-enhanced mcl, presumably not in a separate package due to the >> duplication of code? > > I assume the mcl development is really stalled. But I'd love to see a > discussion between upstream and the maintainer of the 12-068 fork > whether they could settle with a common code base which also includes > the OCaml support. May be the first step could be to open an issue > at [1] and ask for updating the code base? > > Thanks a lot for your investigation. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > >> [1]: https://github.com/fhcrc/mcl >> [2]: >> https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/mcl/-/commit/96b51bfc7549accf6306ad8000599ec16a174c30 > >
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