Re: Does #322722 make sense?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:05:53PM +0200, Remi Vanicat wrote:
> 2005/9/3, Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > gcc and al are standard packages. Is this really relevant?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> gcc is not an essential package, only a build essential one. So yes,
> to be policy compliant, we should depend on it.
> We don't want one of our user to failed to compile one of his program
> because he have no gcc installed, and do only ocaml
> 
> On the other side, I believe that one could compile a program with
> ocamlc without it (at least, when you use no C library).  But I still
> believe we should depend on it.

BTW, any idea how ocaml will behave when part of the libraries and runtime was
built with gcc-3.3 and the rest with gcc-4.0 ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther