Re: Draft for the proposed handling of transitions
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:18:56PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
>
>
> > I don't like it.
> >
> > My idea is.
> >
> > When a new release is made, i re-upload the current ocaml as ocaml-<N>,
> > providing ocaml.
> >
> > Once this one enters unstable, i upload an ocaml package with the
> > version bumped ocaml version <N+1>, and we use this to build new
> > libraries and packages. Old libraries and package work fine with the
> > previous stuff.
> >
> > The only way this will work is to haev strong library dependencies.
>
> I don't like any of the ideas anyway because as you said ..
>
> > Maybe the whole scheme is not worth it, anyway, i will move the ocaml
>
> ... it is not worth it after all.
>
> > libdir all the same, for the other benefits, and to let this possibility
> > open in the future. I will do it after ocaml 3.06 enters testing.
>
> The libdir change in order to add the cvs snapshot is OK, IMO.
Ok, i will do it as soon as ocaml 3.06 enters testing then. We can think
about the rest later on.
> BTW, I'd prefer ocaml-snap (or ocaml-snapshot) because some package
> coming from cameleon is called ocamlcvs.
Ok, we already have (had since the maintainer resigned) galeon-snapshot.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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