Re: Bug#322210: [m68k] ocaml-nox: can not be removed
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:35:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:17:45PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:00:43PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:11:45AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > > > > I wonder if anyone is using the original emacs caml mode. Everyone I
> > > > > know uses tuareg mode. Why not just drop the emacs mode from the
> > > > > ocaml-* packages?
> > > >
> > > > I think it's too much a drastic choice to be made by we debian packages.
> > > > After all the original emacs mode is shipped by upstream and users may
> > > > expect it to be available in the debian package.
> > > >
> > > > A separate package, which is not installed per default when you install
> > > > ocaml (that mean to me no Recommends on it) is a better choice IMO.
> > >
> > > Agreed.
> > >
> > > I also feel that upstream may be using it :)
> >
> > I don't think that the upstream developers run ocaml from the debian
>
> No, but they may like to have it in case they come accross a default debian
> install.
>
> > packages. Anyway, if someone wants to take care of an ocaml-emacsmode
> > package I won't object.
>
> not a separate package, just a separate binary packages.
Yes, that is what I meant. Maybe this would also be an occassion to
have an /etc/alternative mechanism to choose a system-wide default
emacs mode for editing .ml files, as we already discussed it in the
past. Alternatives would be the original and the tuareg mode. On the
other hand I am not sure whether users of other ML dialects (sml)
would be happy with that since, AFAIK, neither the original ocaml
mode nor tuareg are intended for use with other ML dialects, and since
others MLs might use the .ml filenaem suffix as well. What do you
think?
-Ralf.
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