Re: Last problem with cameleon

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:31:47PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> En réponse à Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>:
> 
> 
> > > Exactly the same :-)
> > > The libraries was small and special purpose enough not to ship it as
> > a
> > > standalone package.
> > 
> > And we were not speaking about byte/antive code split back then ?
> > 
> > Tell me if i am wrong, but i have the impression that there are a few
> > such libraries, which are used by 3 or more cameleon programs.
> 
> I don't see what you mean.
> Those libs are not dlls and are only used by cameleon at compile
> time. So cameleon don't need them at run time.

Well, they are C stub libraries, right, and if we would do them the arch
independant way, they could be put into a single dll.so ?

If not, i don't understand what you are speaking about.

> > Ideally, and maybe upstream can be convinced to do that, these
> > libraries
> > could be put together in a small library packages,
> > libcamaleon-support-ocaml or something such.
> 
> Why exactly?

Well, i suppose this depends on the response to the above.

> > The problem is a bit different with advi, where there is only one such
> > library (and really, the only reason i did not separate it, was that i
> > was not able to fix the build process to do so), but here we have at
> > least 3 such dll.so, which could well be merged in one common dll.so
> > common to all cameleon packages.
> > 
> > Anyway, i would like to have feedback from upstream about that, and
> > from
> > you two, since i have no idea of what these library are and do.
> 
> I think I'll have to make a decision about this otherwise I'll
> never upload cameleon :p

:)))

Friendly,

Sven Luther