Re: lib*-ocaml dependency on ocaml-base
Once again, please don't CC me on reply.
Quoting Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>:
> BTW, back in the days, ocaml-base was necessary for doing the stublibs
> registration magic. This is no more so, so it could indeed be dropped.
>
> But still, i don't know what you would gain by doing this, as i see no
> case where libsdl-ocaml could be usefull without ocaml-base being
> installed, and furthermore, depending on ocaml-base-<version> guarantee
> that we have no versioning mismatch.
Programs do not necessary need to be linked with otherlibs and
they can embbed the bytecode interpreter, so won't need ocamlrun.
So, this depende,cy is not mandatory.
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Jérôme Marant
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