Re: searching ocaml packages
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:00:22PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:08:17PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:50:41PM +0100, Georges Mariano wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > A little suggestion :
> > > It would be nice if a sentence like
> > > <<X is written in Ocaml>> will be present in every
> > > package description.
> > >
> > > Not only for advertising around Ocaml ;-) but also
> > > to be able to find every Ocaml related package in
> > > the distribution
> >
> > Will a search for the depend line using ocaml not do the job ?
> >
> > normally each package that contains the bytecode exectuables should depend on
> > ocaml (but you may have to add the dependency by hand).
>
> Certainly not when it is compiled to native. In fact, I had dependency
> from ocaml in my first package for bibtex2html and got a bug report
> from a user who did not want to download and install the complete
> ocaml package to run bibtex2html. I think this person was absolutely
> right to complain.
>
> BTW, Sven: Didn't you always plan to split the ocaml package into somthing
> like ocaml-run and ocaml-devel :-) ?
Yes; but i didn't have time for it.
right now the idea is to ship both bytecode and native binaries in the
packages, but maybe you could make a bi binary package. But, please, don't
ship only the native code version, as this breaks the m68k port, and maybe
others, but then maybe you think only linux/i386 is important ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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