Re: packagin some data structures
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:59:21AM -0400, Mike Furr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So, I was thinking about packaging some useful data structure
> implementations that I've found via the Hump. To start with,
> Jean-Christophe Filliâtre has a nice collection of them on his
> website[1] including things like heaps, tries, creal(exact real arith),
> hash-consing(neat idea!) and a few others. However, I'm not sure how to
> break these into pacakges. Most of them are a single .ml/mli that would
> seem somewhat wasteful to be in a package all by itself. Instead, it
> would probably be a good idea to group at least some of them together
> into a single .deb.
>
> What do you guys think? Some possibilities include:
> (1) - Make lots of tiny packages (libheap-ocaml-dev,...)
> (2) - Make small groups (ocaml-tree-structures,
> ocaml-hash-structures,...)
> (3) - Make a larger package like ocaml-useful-data-structures
> (except with a better name)
>
> I think I would prefer something like (2) so as to not preclude new
> implementations of the same data structure (like a labeled or imperative
> version).
I would maybe put them all in the same source package, and then generate
binary packages, grouped mostly by eventual dependencies.
Friendly,
Svne Luther
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