Re: woody freeze, CDK, ...
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:03:09AM +0200, Georges Mariano wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
> >
> > Hello, ...
> Hi Sven,
>
> > Should
> > we have a task-cdk package ?
>
> What will be the goal for this package ??
> i.e what are the consequences of "apt-get install task-cdk" ??
> Or do you mean that we may have a package task-cdk which will install
> the similar packages provided in the red-hat cdk ?
We would have a collection of package which are also the ones contained in the
cdk. the task-cdk pseudo package (or whatever it is called) will depend on all
of them, and thus installing it will install all the packages contained in the
cdk.
We will also have a task-ocaml, which shouldhave a similar functionality, but
maybe another set of packages, or maybe varisou such selections.
> >Should we build all this from only one source
> > tarball ? (more than one maintainer is involved in that). Or build it
> > separatedly as we have done for now.
> Well, may be I'm wrong but, RedHat users need something like OCaml CDK
> because there is no real packaging policy (in particular for OCaml
> related stuff), right ? So they have to gather packages to be sure that
> they work correctly "in the same space"... Is it the same case within
> Debian ?
But the cdk people may have done some modifiction for all to work together, or
some other such stuff. I don't really know.
The main reason, is if the cdk stuff becomes popular, people may want to have
all the cdk stuff installed, and thus the use of the task-cdk package. Even if
we have a single source package, there will be multiple binaries.
Another reason to do this, may be so one version of the cdk we have will agree
on the cdk from the cdk guys. That said, i am not sure if that is what we
really want, and if it is not a hindrance to us.
> i.e may be, we don't need to gather packages since package management is
> (to some extend) more efficient...
YEs, but we need a wrapper package for easy installation. apt-get install
task-cdk will install all the cdk packages.
> and, last but not least, there was a rather long discussion on the caml
> list about licence problem (when different pieces of software with
> different licences are in the same bag)?
I did not read this, but this causes no problem. The only real problem is the
linking (like libreadline + ocaml toplevel, if that is the thread you were
speaking about).
> Do we have a good (Debian) solution for this ??
Yes, ...
> Where will we put the task-cdk (main? non-free? ...)
main, There are no ocaml packages left in non-free/contrib, at least i believe
such.
But again, non-free/contrib is low priority.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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