[Openmcl-devel] packagers of CCL

[Andrey G. Grozin]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:
> Are any readers are involved in packaging CCL (for Homebrew, MacPorts, various Linux distributions, whatever)?
> If there are reasonable things that I could do with CCL to make that packaging effort easier, won’t you please get in touch?
I'm the packager of ccl for Gentoo Linux. Gentoo is a source-based distro, 
each user compiles all packages on his/her own computer using ebuilds 
(bash scripts written according to some strict rules). In the case of ccl, 
both the source tarball and the binary one are downloaded, the binary is 
used to compile the source, and the result is installed.This is not very 
difficult.

I have just one critical comment. If the USE flag "doc" is set, the ebuild 
also downloads and installs https://ccl.clozure.com/docs/ccl.html. And 
this file name is unversioned. It can silently change at any moment. If 
this happens, all users wanting to install ccl (with USE=doc) will find 
that this file's checksum differs from the one recorded in the 
corresponding Gentoo database, and the installation process will fail. It 
would be much better if this file were named not ccl.html but 
ccl-1.12.2.html, and it won't change during the lifespan of the version 
1.12.2.

Andrey