Re: camlimages
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:29:43PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:20:51PM +0100, Sven wrote:
> > 2) Some people still use mmm, at least for benchmarking purpose, as can be
> > seen by the mail on the ocamllist about array optimization.
> good point
>
> > 3) Some people use it for testing _pure_ html documents or something such, or
> > for a image less browser.
> good point
>
> > 4) It can give examples of what can be done with ocaml,
> mmh ... are you sure that non-ocaml people seeing MMM don't think: "what
> a poor browser!" ?
I was thinking more about people already familiar with ocaml which want to do
an ocamltk based apps, or an html one ?
> > or maybe the source code can be educative.
> also if mmm isn't a .deb per se, for this reason a pointer to the source
> in ocamltk may be sufficient.
Well, unless you are alone somewhere far away from an intenret connection and
a full set of woody CDs.
> > 6) It strengtens the debian-ocamler position with the ocaml team.
> good point, I haven't considered such a "political" issue
Well, we have to think about it, at least a little, i think.
> > 7) don't remember ...
> :-)
>
> > 8) Debian ships less usefull and bigger packages also, i think.
> poor point ...
Yes, that's true ...
> > 9) The testing purpose is a good one, i think, we have not many apps in
> > debian, the autobuilders find bugs when building packages, and that is
> > important i think.
> yes, but this is useful for developer but not for user, if we want test
> building we can do it on various archs (also using autobuilders because
> many of them have mail interfaces) even without building a .deb.
But not automatically with the current setup, and good quality .debs
(especially important pieces as the ocaml package) are important to the
enduser (well those that use the ocaml), especially once it is frozen on
thousands of CDs around the world :)))
>
> Definitely if exists users of mmm, no problem to build up the package
> and don't wait to make ocaml people knows that the .deb exists.
This we would have to determine, we can ask on the ocaml list about it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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