Hello all,
I've been playing around with the ocaml package trying to produce a
patch for splitting it up. We have had several requests for this and
there seemed to be a consesus that each was a good idea, but I wanted to
make sure that we(or, at least Sven) agree on how to lay things out and
to get a big picture of the changes required.
The requests have been:
a) split out the /usr/bin/ocaml interpreter so that ocaml can be used
more like a scripting langauge without pulling in a lot of
dependencies. (motivation: init scripts)[0]
b) split out the labltk files which pulls in lots of X and tk
dependencies. Note that this appears to have been requested in
two ways:
i) the runtime without tk (motivation: debmirror2 Depends: ??)[1]
ii) the compilers without tk (motivation: ocamlc on a zaurus)[2]
c) add internal libs from the compiler (typing/* utils/*...)[3]
Currently, we just have ocaml and ocaml-base which provide the compilers
and runtime respectively. Implementing all of the above would create
the something like the following:
pkg depends contents
-------------------------------------------------------
ocaml -nox,-base,-interp transitively everything
ocaml-base -base-nox full runtime
ocaml-base-nox runtime w/o tk
ocaml-nox -base-nox compilers w/o tk
ocaml-interp -base-nox interpreter, no tk
ocaml-compiler-libs ocaml extra libs
Look good?
[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2003/11/msg00017.html
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2004/03/msg00066.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2004/06/msg00009.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2004/04/msg00132.html
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Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org>
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