On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:19:53PM +0100, Remi VANICAT wrote:
> The big problem of this solution is that it is so unclean to have
> only empty directories for this.
I use a solution similar to the one you propose with a global "meta" dir
which contains META using META.package META files as you suggest below,
it's a nice solution IMO.
> By the way, with regard to policy, IMHO the META file should be into
> a subdirectory of /usr/share (there are only textual file). and I
> believe that ocamlfind understood the META.package notation (in place
> of package/META) so it may be a solution, but will need to heavily
> patch ocamlfind, and to change again all package.
The META files placement is an issue that I've always postponed, but I'm
in favour of a "centralized" META respository somewhere in the
filesystem too.
IMO the transition is not so painful, just add an entry to the OCAMLPATH
and start moving there META files package per package, why you mention
patching findlib?
Cheers.
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Stefano Zacchiroli - Undergraduate Student of CS @ Uni. Bologna, Italy
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