Re: fix the world, make it a better place ...
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:18:24PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > Other problems are :
> >
> > ocamldoc.sty (a simple alternative should do it).
>
> alternative would mean prioritise ocaml versions.
No, you can call update-alternatives in the ocaml dummy package. This
way the user can easily change the alternatives if he need to (i may
even provide a script or something such). Alternatives is the right way
of doing symlinks without breaking a lot of stuff. I even already do so
for the caml includes files.
> > emacs mode (should install in a subdirectory and provide alternatives ?)
>
> Hmm, we can put it in a separate package ocaml-mode and only one ocaml-mode
> would be allowed to be installed at a time.
I don't know, i am no emacs specialist. Ralf, what do you think of it ?
> > In the meantime is it more important to fix the remaining bugs and other
> > problems that stop ocaml from entering testing.
>
> Damned testing.
Why, it will help us to do more experimenting while having a fallback in
case of problems.
> >> So I fear that we won't be able to reach our goal.
> >
> > Huh, do you believe i will not be able to achieve a nice working
> > ocaml-3.06 package, which will be parallel installable ? I think it is
> > possible, and as said, hope even to provide a patch upstream. I will do
> > it in a clean way though.
> >
> > If this fails, no problem i can simply provide a ocaml 3.06-16 package
> > with the latest fixes that went into ocaml-3.06 3.06-16. In fact i have
> > such a thing almost ready.
>
> I think it would be wise to get our changes blessed by the OCaml team.
Yes, sure, no problem i can handle that.
BTW, can i ask you some question ? On your ibook, when you boot into
MacOSX, is it easy to print .ps files ? Even if the printer doesn't know
anything about postscript ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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