Re: 1st incompatibility with 3.10 (ledit): let's package camlp4s?
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:53:43PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Quoting (and rearranging) text from myself:
>
> ledit (1.13-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
>
> * BIG FAT WARNING: ledit does not build against the new camlp4, we will need
> one of:
> 1) packaging camlp4s (http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/)
> 2) porting ledit to the new camlp4
> 3) dropping ledit from the archive
>
> Having read DDR's statement on the caml mailing list I'm pretty sure he
> will never port ledit to the new camlp4.
>
> We can do (2) in Debian, but I think it's pointless, we have
> alternatives to ledit and it would also practically mean forking ledit.
Notice, that until something happened in the recent times, i don't
remember any upstream development to ledit.
> We can do (3), which is reasonable precisely because we have
> alternatives.
Can you tell us which are the alternatives ? When i originally packaged
ledit, nothing came really near, but i have not been following this
stuff since then.
> Or we can do (1), which might prove useful as I guess not every piece of
> camlp4-related software will be ported to the new one, given that the
> old one is available.
>
> Therefore I'm in favour of (1) (still, I haven't yet looked at binary
> name conflicts or similar issues...), what do you think?
I vote for (1) too.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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