Re: [Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr: Bug#192131: ocaml: postinst fails with xemacs]
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:24:46PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:02:34PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:57:05PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:26:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:44:42PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > >
> > > > > BTW, I'd advice that you provide the emacs mode separately, in
> > > > > a package called "ocaml-mode".
> > > >
> > > > Ok, i can do that, but i don't really like it a lot. It is part of the
> > > > ocaml source package, and any trouble i would have with the emacs mode
> > > > would mean a new upload to ocaml also.
> > >
> > > Splitting off a new binary package (with architecture=all) is
> > > easy. The emacs files of the ocaml package currently take
> > > 164 kB for the el (emacs-lisp sourec) files, plus 100 - 124 kB
> > > per flavour. Hence, if you have three flavours of emacs installed
> >
> > Err, the 100-124 per flavor are the ones that get compiled at install
> > time, aren't they.
>
> That's correct. It doesn't concern package size, but it is still a
> waste of space on the users machine if he doesn't want this emacs
> mode.
He don't need to install emacs in that case, does he ?
> > > (like me) then this sums up to 0.5MB. Seems worth to split it off,
> > > in particular since, as Jérôme said, tuareg-mode is much more
> > > popular. In fact I know of noone who uses the original ocaml
> > > emacs mode.
> >
> > Ok, altough i guess there is a reason for it being shipped with ocaml
> > and not tuareg.
>
> Maybe. You may ask the ocaml people.
Mmm, yes i could.
> > What about maintaining it separatedly then ? in his own source package i
> > split of from the ocaml source ?
>
> You still would have to split the source package. If it really bugs you
Well, not really splitting, i will not touch the ocaml source package,
just create a new one.
> then I would rather suggest to drop it alltogether, and only have
> tuareg-mode packaged. If you are still on the ocaml mailing list (I'm not)
> then you might ask there if someone is using the original ocaml
> emacs mode.
Ok, i will see about this.
BTW, laurent is using xemacs21, i think.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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