Re: About this ocaml versioning stuff
Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:25:41PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
>> I'll accept anything as long as:
>> - we respect compatibility with other distro as I explained
>> - we (every maintainer) don't have to support more than the latest
>> version of ocaml
>
> Nobody says that maintainers "have to"!
>
> I only made a proposal that permit maintaners who are willing to, to do
> it. Is it so counterproducing to leave this additional door open?
It was not clear whether we would have the choice.
> An additional good point in supporting also old versions is that with
> ocaml 3.07 some backward incompatibilities have been added.
Which means the code would have to be fixed anyway.
> If this trend is going to be maintained in next release (hopefully I
> would say, given that better improvement to the language could be added
> only with some sacrifices) there will be people that can be in need of
> old ocaml versions.
Old versions can go into people.debian.org ;-P
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Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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