Re: ocaml 3.06.99.beta2-2 released.
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:00:09PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Selon Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:05:33PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > o the objinfo patch. May well be included in the next (3.08?) release
> > > though.
> >
> > What do tuo mean with "objinfo patch"? If you mean the patch that change
> > the executable name it's ok to wait for it. But if you mean the patch
> > that add support for native code objects (.cmx, .cmxa) why not ship it
> > already from 3.07?
>
> Like Stefano, I'd be pleased to be educated about this objinfo patch
> and what it does.
>
> > > o the libdir_version patch. May be included in 3.08 also, maybe
> > > together with the -suffix patch which is not included here. In another
> > > form though.
> >
> > Does this mean that ocaml libraries will be installed back again in
> > /usr/lib/ocaml instead of /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07?
>
> Can we have some details about this too?
>
> > It's ok not to support more than one version at a time, but we had
> > already adopted the /usr/lib/ocaml/<version> convention. IMO is silly to
> > switch back to /usr/lib/ocaml again. It will be just an additional
> > difficulty for the users.
>
> I doubt it. The switch to the versioned ocaml directory has been
> done transparently and only packages install stuff there.
> But maybe did I miss something?
Just download the package source and look at it, everything will become
clear.
As said, the rest of the patches are no more needed, because integrated
upstream.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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