Re: caml-mode (was: Few questions)

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr> writes:

> Salut,
>
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:02:03AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>
>> The work of splitting the emacs stuff in a separate package
>> is almost done. Few questions though:
>> 
>> 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 prefer to keep the upstream name caml-mode.

OK, so noone agrees :-P.

However, Jacques Garrigue used to ship it as ocaml-mode, see:

http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/olabl/ocaml.html

>> 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?
>
> Maybe it is not necesarry to have ocaml-nox depend on caml-mode.
> It should be sufficient to state in the NEWS.Debian that the
> mode has been split off into a separate package. Not having
> caml-mode installed doesn't stop ocaml from working.

OK.

> On the other hand why the dependency of caml-mode on ocaml-nox? If it
> is only because caml-mode may call the ocaml compiler then a recommends
> seems sufficient, as it is the case with tuareg-mode.

OK.

> If you put the mods into svn before upload I can have a look at
> it.

I'll commit soon.

-- 
Jérôme Marant