Re: CDuce package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@enix.org>]

Hello,

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> Ok, please let me know when 0.3.2 is available on svn so that I can
> check it and possibly upload. In the meantime: does the current version
> already build against ocurl anx ocaml-expat? In that case I will be
> happy to upload it know, since NEW queue processing takes rather long
> uploading twice (0.3.1 and 0.3.2) will probably be a good idea ...

I've put 0.3.2 on Subversion. It currently uses Curl, but not Expat, 
because cduce_validate did not compile with Expat. I've reported the 
problem on the CDuce mailing-list and received this morning the answer : 
cduce_validate is deprecated. So, I will soon change the stuff on the 
Subversion repository to not compile cduce_validate and to use Expat.

An other issue is that I had to put «libcurl-ocaml-dev» as a Depends: 
(not Build-Depends:) for CDuce. When a package A uses CDuce, 
libcurl-ocaml-dev has to be installed to compile A. For example, the 
DemExp software uses CDuce, and with the addition of Curl support to 
CDuce, DemExp did not compile anymore in a pbuilder environnement, 
because libcurl-ocaml-dev. I think it's not up to DemExp to 
Build-Depends: on libcurl-ocaml-dev (because it has nothing to do with 
Curl), but up to CDuce to Depends: on libcurl-ocaml-dev.

However, this dependency seems rather ugly. Sven and other on IRC have 
suggested to split the CDuce package into two packages : cduce (which 
would contain the compiler) and libcduce-ocaml-dev (which would contain 
the libraries). However, I'm not sure if that makes sense, since the two 
things are intimately related.

What's your opinion about that ?

Except this problem, I've been able to correctly compile DemExp server 
(which uses CDuce) and run it. So the package seems to be working.

Sincerly,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni
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