Re: [cocci] the future of bundles in coccinelle.git

[Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1029 bytes --]

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:52:42 -0700 Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>:

> Why not go the other route and optionally use the bundles?

What is there actual purpose, what does (any) bundle actually fix?

As you said, every bundle becomes stale. The way it is implemented
means one can not even test them because the one from the environment
takes precedence.

If one wants coccinelle, use the package manager to install it.
In case it is unavailable there, get a copy of opam and install it.
In case one has to actually work on coccinelle.git for whatever reason,
there can not be any convenience, except 'opam install coccinelle'
which will install all required development packages.

In the context of Packman I had to deal with way too many packages
that bundle something which has to be provided by the system.
Every single one was and is a mess to work with. Today my first reaction
when I see any bundle is: purge that repo from disk and do something else.
Which is what I'm going to do now.


Olaf

[-- Attachment #2: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]