Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE: ocamldbi 0.9.8 released
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:16:50PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:18:42PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Yeah, but you had some concerns about the new ocamldbi not being compatible
> > with the dbi stuff in extlib.
>
> Ah yes indeed, that is true.
>
> It's a real problem having the Dbi module in ExtLib too. I think the
> best thing is for me to ask Nicolas Cannasse to remove it. In the
> longer term, Dbi should be either completely in ExtLib or completely
> separate from it, not a strange mixture of the two as now ..
Frankly, I have yet to comprehend what purpose Dbi in ExtLib serves. I
have seen it there, ignored it, and tried to fathom its purpose in life
but drawn a blank. I suppose if somebody wrote a SQL database in pure
OCaml it could go into ExtLib (there is such a beast for Python called
Gadfly). But, AFAIK, no such thing exists.
As to the question about including it in sarge/sid (this was the first I
heard of a question), you should know that I have been tracking the
OcamlDBI CVS for some time now, and likely the final release is not much
different from the one that we already have, which was last updated on
July 28. I will, of course, pursue updating to the latest version ASAP.
For Sven... I do not believe it is appropriate to force this into sarge.
It should be uploaded to unstable and progress into testing in the usual
manner. Forcing untested upstream upgrades into testing opens ourselves
up to exactly the sort of thing that sarge is supposed to prevent, and
"the version in testing is outdated" is not, to me, an acceptable reason
to forsake normal quality assurance procedures.
-- John
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