On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > This is not only something which makes ourt life (as developper) easier, I think that we always agree on this. The last mails we received from Denia are about versioning _third_part_ libraries, not debian ones (even if I still miss how this can be done...). > Finally, what is the point of this ? It is to keep multiple versions of > libraries around, but what is the point of that, if there is no way to > have multiple versions of the ocaml compiler suite ? They are only > stiking around and using space on your harddisk, unless you downgrade > the package to an older version, if you can find such a thing I was thinking the same while reading your points about versioning non debianized stuff ... IMO, they are almost useless. > > Ok, but the problem is how we can implement this tool: we can't just use > > locate, the better that comes in my mind is findlib (try 'ocamlfind > > list'), but we have to impose the use of findlib to all debian packages! > > (this is a real minor effort anyway ...). > > Mostly the ocamlc -where is used, and we can trick it as above. Sven, what's your point about "imposing" findlib from debian ocaml policy? > > Ok, but we (the sysadm) can't blame us as debian, he will have to blame > > the third part installation routine that doesn't install in a versioned > > subdir. We DD can just support versioned directories in /usr/local, > > nothing more. > > But they will blame us, witness to that is Sergio's complain that the > debian package will break its when hand installing libraries with > ld.conf files. Ok, and so ...? With perl things are easier because every perl module install itself using the same tools, we can't solve this problem until we have a widespread tool for ocaml library distribution. IMO this tools exists and is findlib we can help its spreading adopting it as a debian default tool. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy zack@cs.unibo.it | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney
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