Re: ocaml 3.04 packaging issues ...

[jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com (Jérôme Marant)]

Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

> > Does version 3.04-2 of the runtime package contain the libraries that 
> > are used by the runtime system? bc packages loose a lot of their
> > potential advantages when a user needs to install the ocaml development
> > package to run them.
> 
> I have ready 4 packages, ocaml, ocaml-doc, lablgl and lablgtk.
> 
> In the case of libraries, i have a full package and a runtime package with
> oinly the dlls, in the same manner as the ocaml-base package.

  I'm not in favor of splitting libraries into full package and runtime.
  This will bloat the archive with multiple packages and the benefits
  of this are not worth the split IMO (this is ok for ocaml itself
  however).

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Jérôme Marant