Re: Counter proposal for the multiple ocaml installed
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:14:59PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:21:46PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> > > BTW, stefano proposed to upload ocaml-3.06 and ocaml-3.07, and have
> > > ocaml being a dummy package depending on the version we like.
> >
> > This works like this for Python (and GCC) because people have to provide
> > multiple versions of libraries, one for each version.
> > We clearly don't want to do that but rather ease transitions, and
> > remove the old version of ocaml when possible.
> > We must tell the use we do not support old versions of ocaml.
>
> I've retought about this a bit and I realized that to follow the python
> way, as you stated, we have to add a new binary package to the archive
> for every library and remove the old binary package afterward.
>
> This is really overkilling, I'd rather prefer the ocaml + ocaml cvs
> snapshot solution now.
But even if we don't go this way, it is allright to move the
ocamllibdir, isn't it ?
the transition thingy need some more rigorous dependency with the libs,
which is not something that is really cleared yet.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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