Re: fix the world, make it a better place ...
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:58:15AM +0100, jmarant@nerim.net wrote:
> 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?
I don't know, i don't really follow Perl stuff.
Could you summarize the dangers of using alternatives for us ?
> > > > 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.
How does python do 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.
>
> Testing does not personaly help me. Autobuilders' logs do.
Well, i agree that testing has failed in its usefullnes to users, but this is
principaly because of the glibc issue, what it does is help ensure that
once every package is ok, we don't have a nightmare for building for all
arches, like we did in pre-testing times. We encounter and solve the
problems early rather than at the last minute.
Once glibc enters testing, we get the added benefit of having backup
packages easily available in case someone uploads a really broken
package or something like this, so we can do more experimenting, without
having to resort to snapshot.debian.org in case something went wrong.
> > > 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 :-)
Too bad, will have to ask someone else.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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