Re: fix the world, make it a better place ...
Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> a écrit :
> 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.
Alternatives are not such a right. Don't you remember
the Perl mess using alternatives before Brendan O'Dea
took it over?
> > > 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 ?
Let's do it like Python.
> > > 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.
Testing does not personaly help me. Autobuilders' logs do.
..
> > 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 ?
I'm afraid I don't use MacOSX at all :-) I only use Free Software :-)
Cheers,
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