Re: proposal: new ocaml dirs schema
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:29:14PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it> writes:
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> > ----- Forwarded message from Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> -----
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> What is the meaning of all those forwards?
Because i was stupid, and did a reply to the automatic message from the
pts, and my reply was thus sent to debian-devel and stefano. Stefano was
so kind as to sent the messages to the list, where they belonged.
I hope he will have had time to adapt the forwarding stuff to rewrite
Reply-to.
> I'm not sure that it is a good idea. Do we really want multiple versions
> of ocaml at a time?
If it does not cost much ?
And i have got people asking about this, and it can make sense in some
cases. In particular, this would enable me to package cvs snapshots.
> Unstable is dedicated to development and is not targeted at the end
> user so it may break sometimes. And unstable is the right place to
> handle transitions like the OCaml one.
> So when we swtich to another OCaml, we are hopefully forced to
> quickly recompile libraries.
>
> When a program is compiled with a given version of ocaml and wants
> to use a library that is compiled with another ocaml (or worse,
> is linked against a dll.so), you'll have troubles and you'll need to
> recompile it anyway.
No, because each version of ocaml will only know about the libraries
that are compiled with the exact same version.
> Better avoid any problem by making something uninstalable.
No, i don't think there will be a problem.
> My conclusion: you proposal works fine IFF we provide versioned
> packages of our libraries.
Mmm, i don't believe this would be a problem, if you build the package
with a given version, then it will go in the ocamllibdir of that
version, and another version of ocaml will not know about it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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