On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:15:05AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Another reason is that a user may want to install only one library of > > the bounce provided by ocaml-extra-libs and use another version of a > > library provided in the same package (this is possibile and easy with > > findlib). > > Erm, did we not have this discution during the findlib thread ? I think you miss the point sven. Figure out this situation: we made the package with a bounce of ocaml library, say libA, libB and libC each with a version. A user may want to use libA and libB but may want to a different versione of libC, if we have a unique package he can't do it. > > Another point of interest: ok, it's better to keep optionally the > > dependencies on ocaml-findlib, but in doing this we have to fork the > > installation methods on the makefiles. > > No, wait, did we not discuss that there would be an empty findlib wrapper or > something such, and that just placing the FINDLIB make variable to empty it > would work fine, or somethign such ? yes, but for now the Makefile that I saw can't work without findlib, as an example, from netstring module: $(OCAMLFIND) install -destdir $(DESTDIR) $(NAME) *.mli *.cmi *.cma netstring_top.cmo netstring_mt.cmo netmappings_iso.cmo netmappings_other.cmo META $$extra This don't work with empty OCAMLFIND var. > no problem, like said, we have to conform to a futur goal, and in the > meantime, things may not be perfect yet. Just don't forget the goal. ok -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy SysAdm of verdicchio.students.cs.unibo.it (130.136.3.134) "Information wants to be Open"
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