Re: Few questions

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:02:03AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> 1/ it is called caml-mode in sources since it applies to caml light
>>    as well. Shall I keep calling it caml-mode or ocaml-mode?
>
> I vote for ocaml-mode (even if I believe that's a bit a namespace abuse
> having *-mode names for emacs mode packages, *-emacs-mode would have
> been better, but it seems to be a widely used convention).

Let's go for ocaml-mode

>> 2/ this new package depends on ocaml-nox, and ocaml-nox needs to
>>    depend on it until etch is released (for transitional purpose),
>>    which makes a circular dependency. Is this a problem?
>
> Why it depends on ocaml-nox?

Because it needs development binaries like ocamlc.

> As Sven I'm against the transitional purpose argument. I would go for no
> relationship at all (no Depends/Recommends/Suggests) from ocaml-nox to

Why would Suggests be a problem? I'd like to suggest tuareg-mode |
ocaml-mode.

> ocaml-mode and an entry in NEWS.Debian stating that the emacs mode has
> been moved to a separate package named ocaml-mode.
>
> Many thanks for your work Jerome, really.

You're welcome.

-- 
Jérôme Marant