About this ocaml versioning stuff
Hi,
I've read the thread about ocaml 3.07 packages.
This is well known I don't agree with this because I think it
is useless and silly. I'd repeat that the problem comes from
testing scripts and not from ocaml packages, so testing script
must be fixed.
I think that binaries must not be suffixed with a version because
compatibilities with other distro are going to be lost, especialy:
- binary compatibility: binaries distributed must always
call #!/usr/bin/ocamlrun . Hence, you can run the same
binary everywhere.
- source compatibility: autoconf scripts are seeking for
ocamlc, ocamlopt and so on. At least, symlinks must always
been there.
--
Jérôme Marant
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