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Re: Bug#235118: ITP: hashtbl-ext -- Camlp4 Hashtbl syntax extension



On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 04:37:24PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:40:50AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> >   Upstream Author : Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it>
> <snip>
> >  Camlp4 syntax extension to get more {easy,perlish} usage of Hashtbl
> >  module hash tables. 
> 
> Erm, since I'm upstream author of this I would rather prefer to package
> it by myself :-) I've never did it since I've no idea of how many people
> use this package.
> 
> Moreover is really a tiny package (just one camlp4 .ml), do you think
> it's worth the effort to package it as a standalone package? Wouldn't it
> be better to add is as a debian add-on to the ocaml package or to the
> ocaml-tools package? I've no strong preference here ....

Let's put it in ocaml-tools for now. I don't like the idea of adding it
to the ocaml package, which is mostly a pure upstream ocaml + assorted
bugfixes.

Later, if more camlp4 syntaxe stuff is added, we could have a camlp4-tools
or something such package though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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