Re: About this ocaml versioning stuff

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:47:50AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> 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.

Another reason to move the ocaml package to ocaml-3.07 would be to
satisfy the autobuilders who have difficulties handling virtual
packages, but this can be handled independently of the -suffix stuff.
The new package just would have to conflict with other versions or
something such.

Friendly,

Sven Luther