On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:42:50PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > I have no problem with any of this, but it occurred to me that perhaps > the native-compilers package should use the Debian alternatives > mechanism, and make the *.opt versions alternatives for the > byte-compiled equivalents. (Are there any circumstances in which That's idea should be considered, but IMO is a bit more invasives. There are a lot of Makefiles and configure scripts that check for ocamlc vs ocamlc.opt and make decision on that assuming that ocamlc is the non optimized version of the compiler. I doubt we can do any harm having ocamlc being in reality the .opt version, but we are changing what they believe on the usual ocaml installation. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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