Re: [Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr: Bug#192131: ocaml: postinst fails with xemacs]
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:57:05PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:26:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:44:42PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>
> > > BTW, I'd advice that you provide the emacs mode separately, in
> > > a package called "ocaml-mode".
> >
> > Ok, i can do that, but i don't really like it a lot. It is part of the
> > ocaml source package, and any trouble i would have with the emacs mode
> > would mean a new upload to ocaml also.
>
> Splitting off a new binary package (with architecture=all) is
> easy. The emacs files of the ocaml package currently take
> 164 kB for the el (emacs-lisp sourec) files, plus 100 - 124 kB
> per flavour. Hence, if you have three flavours of emacs installed
Err, the 100-124 per flavor are the ones that get compiled at install
time, aren't they.
> (like me) then this sums up to 0.5MB. Seems worth to split it off,
> in particular since, as Jérôme said, tuareg-mode is much more
> popular. In fact I know of noone who uses the original ocaml
> emacs mode.
Ok, altough i guess there is a reason for it being shipped with ocaml
and not tuareg.
> > Another solution would be to not ship the emacs mode from the ocaml
> > package and create a new source package containing the emacs mode, or
> > maybe even add it to the existing package which contains the alternative
> > emacs mode, maintained by Ralf, if i am not wrong.
>
> I am completely against this. Maintaining binary packages with
> multiple source (like ocaml-tools) is a PITA.
What about maintaining it separatedly then ? in his own source package i
split of from the ocaml source ?
But again, maybe i will just split of a new binary package. At least it
will no more stop ocaml from being installed if it breaks. I will still
have to maintain it though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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