Use opam repo instead of submodules

[objmagic]

See: https://github.com/ocamllabs/advanced-fp-repo

A customized repo can be set up to have your customized camlpdf, otfm, and ucorelib there.

I can send some pull requests when I'm free.

[nekketsuuu]

@gfngfn Will you plan to send pull requests of your custom packages? If not, I also think creating a opam repo is a good idea to divide the dependency problem and to simplify the build process. But it needs a new official git repo, so now I can't contribute to this.

cf.: https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Usage.html#opam-repo

[objmagic]

@nekketsuuu you can create a opam repo, test it, and transfer ownership back to gfn on GitHub. Or better, we can set up an organization on GitHub.

[nekketsuuu]

@objmagic Thanks! I don't know we can transfer repo's ownership.

[nekketsuuu]

I tried to set up a opam repo for SATySFi. It seems to be working well :) https://github.com/nekketsuuu/satysfi-external-repo

[nekketsuuu]

@gfngfn Which do you think is better, to transfer ownership or to make an organization?

[qnighy]

So in my understanding, the possible options are:

1. Keep status quo.
2. Create a custom opam repo.
3. Try to push everything back to the upstreams, then use the official package.

We can also try to push some of the patches back to the upstreams, while choosing 1 and 2.

@gfngfn which option do you think is ideal? My idea is that if these patches are highly SATySFi-specific, then 2 is suitable. I'm willing to help you either way.

[gfngfn]

Thank you for the suggestion, and I’m terribly sorry for the late response.

For now, I would not like to send gfngfn/otfm:master to dbuenzli/otfm as a pull request, since the development of gfngfn/otfm largely breaks the backward compatibility with dbuenzli/otfm. If willing to do so, it seems necessary to have a profound discussion and to reach a genuine consensus with dbuenzli-san.

[nekketsuuu]

I transferred the ownership of nekketsuuu/satysfi-external-repo to gfngfn.

[nekketsuuu]

@objmagic #62 is merged thanks to gfn-san :-)

[gfngfn]

Thank you very much for introducing external opam repositories (and am very sorry for the late response).

[objmagic]

Great. Thanks!

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[objmagic]

closed via #62