Re: searching ocaml packages
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:27:56AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > > 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 ?
>
> Sven,
>
> I certainly don't think that only linux/i386 is important. However, all
> of my packages written in ocaml (bibtex2html, hlins, ocamlweb) have from
> upstream configure support that selects native compilation if available,
> and byte-code otherwise.
Well, these are end programs and not library. In this case it should be ok to
compile only the native code version, and not the bytecode one. ocaml
libraries (as is mlgtk) should support both versions.
Will try to find time to look at this more next week.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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