Re: About this ocaml versioning stuff
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:32:09PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:19:59PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> > > We have ever spoken about symlink, that surely should be present and
> > > provide backward compatibility with the current (3.06) situation. The
> > How?
>
> I suspect I have been misunderstood. I didn't mean 3.06/3.07
> compatibility. I mean that executing ocaml/ocamlc/ocamlopt/... will run
> the latest installed ocaml tools.
>
> > > ocaml 3.07 package built by Sven has not yet them, just because it was
> > > an experiment to try if it is possible to add the -<version> suffix.
> > This is why it is wrong, since such packages do not provide the symlinks.
>
> You're right, indeed they are not meant to be uploaded (or at least I
> wont agree on such an upload :-).
Wrong they can be uploaded all the same, they will not hurt anyone
because nobody will use them until we replace the ocaml package by a
symlink providing package.
> Take them as a first step toward the final solution that will be
> uploaded, Sven has not much time to work on them and we are sharing
> efforts. If you can add symlinks _now_ you can do it and we will have a
> better package sooner :-PPPP
> Otherwise we should wait for Sven to add symlinks stuff.
The symlink should go in a separate package, as gcc does. If this is not
nice, i would like to hear about it.
> > And if they provide symlinks, there is no point providing versioned
> > suffixes.
>
> This is not true. Having symlink permits you to have installed at the
> same time 3.06 and 3.07 ocaml versions and therefore permit the new
> ocaml package to start walking toward the testing entrance before the
> old one is removed.
Like for gcc :
=> gcc -> will call gcc-3.3 right now.
=> gcc-3.3, gcc-3.2 or gcc-2.95 will call the corresponding versions.
>
> > Am I going to provide alternative ocaml packages ? };->
>
> I would rather prefer you to improve Sven's :-)
:))
Friendly,
Sven Luther
>
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