Re: [Caml-list] binary compatibility of 3.08.3
- To: Berke Durak <obdurak@free.fr>
- Cc: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu, Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>, zack@debian.org, caml-list@inria.fr, debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: [Caml-list] binary compatibility of 3.08.3
- From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:31:03 +0100
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:33:09PM +0100, Berke Durak wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:25:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:01:00AM -0500, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> > > It's worth mentioning that the pain of such upgrades is considerably
> > > reduced by the use of a package manager like GODI. It's hardly
> > > perfect, but it makes such things much easier.
> >
> > We already have a package manager, thank you all the same. The user won't see
> > a thing, but it is a hard thing for us debian package maintainers to rebuild
> > all packages that are dependent on ocaml on all 11 officially supported debian
> > architectures, and a bunch of unofficial ones, especially given the fact that
> > there are many dependencies, and there is at least one day lag in the
> > dependency chain building, and that some of our architectures are real slow to
> > build (m68k, mips/mipsel and s390 are the usual blockers, often arm and hppa
> > too). And so near to the sarge release, it is a real question if we should
> > forego the 3.08.3 changes or launch such a wide rebuild, which may miss the
> > freeze/release date anyway, or worse even, may make some important part of the
> > packages not being in the release at all. Luckily no ocaml package is part of
> > base/standard, and not affected by the base freeze.
>
> By the way, is m68k/s390/etc. stuff built on m68k/etc. ? Why not
> cross-compile on fast CPUs ?
As said, we have enough m68k autobuilder to do the work, so why go for more
complicated and error-prone setups. As said, during the last transition, it
was not really m68k which was the problem.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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