[bug#49203] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add ocaml-uri-sexp.

[Adu O'Hara]

Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 24 2021, Adu O'Hara wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the patches!
> >
> > There is already an `ocaml-uri`. How about updating that to 
> > 4.2.0 
> > (currently at 4.1.0) and let `ocaml-uri-sexp` inherit from 
> > ocaml-uri with #:package set to "uri-sexp"?
>
> That could probably be done in a separate patch series; this 
> series is
> about adding ‘ocaml-cohttp’.

True, what I was suggesting would add another patch to the series 
and mix up intentions of the series. Still, I'd suggest for 
ocaml-uri-sexp to inherit from ocaml-uri. Otherwise we have them 
at two different versions.

wdyt?

> > Another alternatively: remove the #:package argument from 
> > `ocaml-uri` so that all packages are built (`uri`, `uri-sexp` 
> > and 
> > `uri-re`).
>
> Those are three separate packages on Opam, so I don’t think it 
> makes
> sense for us to merge them into one.  Not everyone who installs
> ‘ocaml-uri’ is going to want ‘ocaml-uri-sexp’ and 
> ‘ocaml-uri-re’.
>
> WDYT?

Yeah, that make sense. Keeping them separate sounds good.