Re: Perl4caml packaged

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

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:03:42AM +0100, sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org wrote:
> Well, since i have sleep i have some more arguments pro central repo for
> ocaml :
> - maintaining package is more a "transverse" work, ie : when you package
>   ocaml related work, you still do the same thing ( need to check this
>   and this and this ) with some variant. So when you change the need for
>   things A to things B ( ocaml-3.07 to ocaml-3.08 ) you could do it in
>   one pass if you have a central repo, or you need to wait for a
>   propagation of information if not. To my mind it is really useful to
>   have a set of package which need the same knowledge in the same place.

Are you proposing a batched auto-upgrade of ocaml version for libraries
setup ? This would need a bit of doing, but would indeed be a really
nice thing to have.

Friendly,

Sven Luther