Re: lib*-ocaml dependency on ocaml-base
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:06:48AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>
> Once again, please don't CC me on reply.
Erm, could you set your mail-follow-up to header correctly then ?
> 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.
Well, sure, but this is by no way the most common case, so best is to
keep the dependency. It will cause more problems to remove them than the
benefit is worth.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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