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Re: splitting off ocamlmake from ocaml-tools



On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 12:02:43PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 
> > This behaviour is annoying, people installing ocaml-tools may not be
> > aware of it (because they are installing ocaml-tools only for
> > OCamlMakefile for example) and will have their vim behaviour changed
> > without any notice.
> 
> I would like to split off ocamlmake from ocaml-tools and put it
> in a separate package. The reason is that ocamlmake is the biggest
> component of ocaml-tools, and also the one which is evolving the
> fastest. Splitting would make it easier to update ocamlmake more
> often (multi-source packages are a pain to update to a new upstream
> version), and ocaml-tools would have to be updated less often.
> 
> This is for post-sarge, of course.

I would try for it for sarge even, there should be no major problem involved i
think.

If you are at it, could you include opkg-buildpackage in ocaml-tools too ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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