Re: ocaml-3.06 3.06-16 ready to be tested ...
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:32:23PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
>
>
> >> We can provide an Ocaml plus a CVS snapshot of OCaml which
> >> won't get any support for our libraries. So, we wouldn't
> >> need that.
> >
> > Well, the real problem is for when migrating between different ocaml
> > versions. We have currently ocaml 3.06-1, and a set of libraries around
> > that that. Once i upload 3.07, there will be a new set of libraries, but
> > the old one will still be available until all libraries and apps are
> > rebuilt with the new ocaml and libraries.
>
> There isn't any problem: when you upload a 3.07, libraries depending on
> 3.06 become uninstallable. So you can have nothing but those choices:
> - not upgrading to 3.07 (holding ocaml)
> - upgrading to 3.07 which makes all libraries being vanished.
>
> So, it doesn't break anything and this is what we want (that is, we can
> never have 3.06-built libs and ocaml 3.07 installed at a time).
Yes, that is what we decided previously, you were the one asking about
it. Also, i was thinking about easying the unstable->testing migration.
> > Now, it comes to the case of third parties apps, like the ones remi
> > uses, which need the old ocaml runtime, and the the corresponding
> > libraries also.
>
> He need to rebuilt those third pary apps against the new ocaml.
> This is how unstable works.
Yes, but when he does not have the sources ?
> >> No need to make things more difficult than they are.
> >
> > You were the one pointing the C library case.
> >
> > We have the same problem as them.
>
> Do you mean the .so problem? If so, it is another story.
Yes, ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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