Opened 9 months ago

Last modified 9 months ago

#69345 assigned update

lean: Update to Lean 4

Reported by: szhorvat (Szabolcs Horvát) Owned by: kakuhen
Priority: Normal Milestone:
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Port: lean

Description

Please update the lean port to Lean 4, or alternatively provide Lean 4 through a new port.

The official Lean installation instructions suggest executing a shell script directly from GitHub, which then proceeds to install Homebrew, and thus doesn't play well with an existing MacPorts installation. Installing Lean would be much easier for MacPorts users if it were provided as a port.

https://leanprover-community.github.io/install/macos.html

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 9 months ago by szhorvat (Szabolcs Horvát)

Type: defectupdate

comment:2 Changed 9 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: kakuhen removed
Owner: set to kakuhen
Status: newassigned
Summary: Lean: Update to Lean 4lean: Update to Lean 4

Looks like their shell script installs Homebrew, configures it to add a non-standard collection of formulas, uses that to install Microsoft Visual Studio Code, and then uses VS Code to install lean 4. Obviously a MacPorts port won't be doing any of those things. We build from source.

The lean port is currently downloading from https://github.com/leanprover-community/lean at which the latest version is 3.51.1. The port could probably be updated to that version easily.

The README there says:

Lean 3 is no longer actively maintained. It is strongly recommended that you use Lean 4 instead.

where "Lean 4" is a link to the main lean web site which, if you look for a source download link, leads to https://github.com/leanprover/lean4 at which the latest version is 4.5.0. So your request to update to version 4 is a request to switch from the community edition to the official version. I don't know how much effort is involved in doing that or what the differences between the editions are or why this port has always used the community edition instead of the official version but presumably there was a reason.

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