Re: ocaml 3.04 is released today :)))
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:27:36PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:44:19PM +0100, Sven wrote:
> > o i will finally grant ralf's wish and separate the runtime stuff into a
> > separate package named ocaml-base (after perl-base and other such).
>
> maybe ocaml-runtime is a better name?
> We have the meta-package ocaml-core and the two names will be IMO very
> similar.
I think various other packages follow the perl example and provide a -base
name, This is a well established naming convention to use, but i may be
willing to reconsider it.
Anyway, i was thinking about the ocaml package providing and replacing the
ocaml-base package.
> > If anyone has any remarks or past experience with 3.03, please speak now (or
> > remain silent ...)
>
> Please move the documentation to /usr/share/doc/ocaml/ instead of
> /usr/share/doc/ocaml-doc/.
mmm, will consider it.
> I don't know if there is a policy statement but usually the *-doc
> packages install the docs in the /share/doc/ dir of the main package.
mmm, i don't think there is any clear evidence for either cases.
ocaml-doc could be a symlink to ocaml/doc ?
> Moreover accessing the documentation from the main package directories
> is more intuitive because a user may not know if there exists a *-doc
> package.
Yes, ...
> Apart from this, as soon you have also a preliminary version of the
> .deb, mail us the url where we can find it so that we can rebuild the
> ocaml libraries packages ASAP.
Yes, will do, altough i guess it will not be before this week end or early
next week.
There may also be compatibility problems ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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