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Re: other META: lablgl, lablgtkgl, ...



On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:05:35PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:20:58AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > The only reason for doing this a hacky workaround to the too big META
> > files. If you want to know, i would simply copy the lablgtk
> 
> No, this is not the reason!, the reason is that you have to factorize a
> piece of software (lablgtkgl) which depends on lablgl while the rest of
> lablgtk does not depend on lablgl.

Yes, i understand this, but it is still a hacky workaround. After the
info from Claudio, i guess the correct way to solve this would be to
move all the META files to a common directory, and have one META file
for lablgtk and another for lablgl, without needing to move lablgtkgl
into another directory, which is the hacky part of your solution, if i
understood it well.

That said, what about creating a ocaml-findlib-metas or
ocaml-findlib-data package, containing all the meta files, and which
could be upgraded everytime there is a change, without needing to
rebuild the libraries, with all the dependency and testing migration
problems this may cause.

> If you keep on having a single findlib package for lablgtk you have to
> impose a global dependencies from lablgtk to lablgl, this has nothing to
> do with META file size.

Yes, another shortcoming of the current META file format.

> > > Maybe, but please speak of this approach with the upstream author, not
> > > with me ;)
> > Mmm, he is subscribed to this list, is he not ? I have not much time for
> 
> I suppose not ...

Ok, i will try to contact him this WE.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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