Re: splitting the ocaml package ???
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:08:24AM +0200, Remi VANICAT wrote:
> Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:16:25PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 11:31:08AM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > > BTW, Does someone have more info about the curses dependency of ocaml ?
> > >
> > > on my sid machine:
> > > $ dpkg -l ocaml | grep Depends
> > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1), tcl8.3
> > > (>= 8.3.2), tk8.3 (>= 8.3.0), xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11), libncurses5-dev
> > >
> > > ocaml depends on libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev which in turn depends
> > > only on libc6 and on each other.
> > >
> > > Did really ask for this ... ?
> >
> > No, there is a new option in the ocaml 3.01 configuration file, which is
> > called -nocurses or something like that. I guess this would enable us to build
> > ocaml without curses dependency. My question was what is lost by this, and if
> > it makes sense for us.
>
> What is lost is the coloration (underlining) of the error (when
> there is one).
Ok, ...
> > Please notice, that (at least on a xterm) ocaml 3.01 toplevel seem to have
> > broken del/bs handling, as shown in :
> >
> > luther@iliana:~/mail/lists$ ocaml
> > Objective Caml version 3.01
> >
> > # sdfgsd^H^H^H^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~
> >
> > well, this and anyway, up/down arrow don't seem to work. I would have liked
> > for it to be built against libreadline ...
>
> there is the ledit program that can be found on the inria ftp that
> replace more or less the readline library. It is really usefull, and
> not only for ocaml
mmm, will try it, would be nice to package it, what license comes it under ?
Or maybe it would be nice to have it included in the ocaml-tools package ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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