On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:15:25PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Am I missing something? < snipped a lot of useful information > Ok, thanks for the hints. Anyway I was reasoning mainly about libraries (even if I forget to mention it, sorry). Libraries which ships .so can't be arch: all, but have to be architecture dependent, this was may point. On the other hand, we can surely state in the ocaml packaging policy to build, where possible and useful (i.e. not cpu bound programs), architecture independent ocaml based _programs_, this will be surely an improvement for the user and for the spreading of ocaml programs. Regarding the additional .debs that the user have to download (mainly the additional 'ocaml-base' package, IMO this is not a problem because it have to be downloaded only once and promote future reusability. I'm really in favour of trading off one-package download overhead with code sharing between many packages, this is also the philosophy behind system shared objects. 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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