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Re: ocaml packaging policy ...



On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:48:24PM +0100, Sven wrote:
> please all have a look at this document which will come with ocaml 3.04-6, it
> is supposed to be a begining of a ocaml policy document, altough i am not a
> very good writter, and it may be badly worded, obscure and full of english
> erros.

I had a quick look at the documenta and this seems to me a good start
for an ocaml packaging policy, anyway I think that some little
improvement can be made. Better after woody release and when we have
more time (IIRC you, Sven, are currently heavy occupied).

Anyway some points have to be discussed ASAP:
1) mainly: fits the requirement stated in such a policy require a great
amounts of change expecially to library packages, should we start making
that changes or we better wait the freeze? I know that the freeze seems
to be really far, but does we want to risk?
2) the dependencies requirement seems to me a bit more restrictive.
Possible becuase I miss a point: is it granted that new version of ocaml
compiler means backword incompatibility with old bytecodes?

Cheers.

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