Re: Policy ready to be edited
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:00:45PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:36:00AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:52:53PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have just finish to fixed the policy document you can found on
> > > pkg-ocaml-maint / dh-make-ocaml/trunk/policy. There is a master document
> > > ( ocaml_packaging_policy.xml ) and chapter/appendix.
> > >
> > > Off course, they need to be filled by something ( sorry i have no time
> > > to do something more clean ).
> >
> > Ok, i will try to add some of the stuff from the old policy document in
> > time, provided i can use conglomerate or something such for it. If not i
> > will just post the paragraphs, and leave the work of actually adding
> > them to someon more XML fluent.
> >
>
> I am sorry Sven, i think it could not be edited with conglomerate. I
> give it a try and it fails almost immediatly. Furhtermore, i have
> separated chapter in XML entity, and it is not a feature supported by
> conglomerate.
Ok. But nice to know, i will try and feed the result to the conglomerate
co-maintainer and upstream.
> > > As we have discussed on friday night :
> > > - choose between putting META file either in stdlibdir/META.package
> > > or stdlibdir/package/META ( we have choose the second one because it is
> > > the default way of doint this with ocamlfind... )
> >
> > As i understood it, they go in package/META, because the other method
> > was not supported yet by findlib. If that has changed, it would be nicer
> > to put them all in a ocamllib/METAS directory, and have findlib modified
> > accordyingly.
>
> Yes, it is possible. Maybe we can propose a mix of approach :
> Either put it in the package/ or in the METAS/ ( if the package
> doesn't support findlib ).
Huh ? Notice that in the case of lablgtk for example, it is not always
possible to put it in package.
> I really don't know. To my mind i prefer one META per subdirectory, each
> subdirectory containing the all the package libs.
Which clutters the stdlib. Let's move it to a METAS directory, like we
did with the dll.so files.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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