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Re: "weird" naming convention for ocamlbuild executables



On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 01:54:08PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> If we change away from the foo / foo.opt naming scheme, I'd prefer to
> make a "clean break" and adopt the .bytecode/.native approach.  I
> always thought the presence of both ocamlopt and ocamlc.opt was quite
> confusing (and leads to abominations like ocamlopt.opt).  I'd rather
> see ocamlc{,.native,.bytecode} and ocamlopt{,.native,.bytecode}, etc.
> 
> I suppose *.opt symlinks could be kept for a while for compatibility,
> but I'd rather see them go away.

Fully agreed, but we can't do such a change "just" in Debian. We need to
convince upstream about that and I don't think it would be easy...

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