Re: .cmx inclusion in modules

[Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>]

	Hi all !

Le Sunday 30 March 2008 21:06:13 Stefano Zacchiroli, vous avez écrit :
> 0) post here a proposed policy amendment supporting the above stuff

As it still seems to me a general issue for any package, library or not, I 
would propose to add it in section 1.5, in the list of requirements when 
installing files:

" * The .cmxa does not contain all the information from the .cmx, in 
particular not the inlining information. Hence, you should ship a .cmx file, 
when available, for each .cmxa file that is installed."

I could also be possible to include a link to the original discussion.

I used "should", because it is not mandatory but an optimisation.
In the same spirit, it could be a lintian information, based only on file 
names, until we come up with a better check, possibly in a ocaml support 
package.

Also, this sentence may go directly to section 3 if we feel it's more 
appropriate to enforce such thing only for libraries.

And, when I'm at it, the policy shipped at:
  /usr/share/doc/ocaml-nox/ocaml_packaging_policy.html/x185.html
Uses paths /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/(...). It doesn't seems correct, 
is it ?

Romain
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