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Re: About this ocaml versioning stuff



Selon Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:

> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:58:58PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> > > social contract says so. And anyway, we are the vanguard of ocaml
> > > packaging, i guess others will follow suit if we do something :)))
> > I think more and more of providing my own version of ocaml packages ...
> 
> Jerome, Sven, please, don't be silly.

Hmm, I can discuss but I think I have no choice but accepting
what's going to happen. Should I still give my view?
 
> The thread between you two is (not so) slowly drifting away from the
> original two pointed out problems.
> 
> Please explain what kind of compatibility we are going to break having
> as an invariant all symlinks pointing to the latest ocaml version.

You must make sure symlinks are there which is not possible when
they are provided by another package.

> We can also provide hard link if some broken minded script is looking
> for ocaml not being a symlink! :-)

Hmm?

--
Jérôme Marant



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