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Re: Counter proposal for the multiple ocaml installed



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.

Cheers.

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Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy
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