On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:13:50AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> * Package name : core
This is now done. In the past few days I've packaged the following
source packages, which compose the stack we were lacking in Debian to
have core (some renames were in order for various reasons):
Source Binaries Jane St. name
----------------------------------------------------
bin-prot libbin-prot-camlp4-dev bin_prot
ocaml-res libres-ocaml-dev res
janest-core libcore-ocaml{,-dev} core
type-conv libtype-conv-camlp4-dev type-conv
sexplib310 libsexplib-camlp4-dev sexplib310
All have been uploaded to experimental, sexplib310 has already passed
through new (o_O), while the first 4 are currently sitting there.
The main problem with all this is bin-prot, which supports for sure only
i386/amd64 and maybe the other little endian architectures. In turn,
core which depends on it is available out of the box only on such
architectures. This is annoying, as my bet is that core will become
quite widespread in the future, and we don't want to have OCaml apps
only on 2 archs.
The 2 roads are: (1) port bin-prot to big endian archs, (2) make core
build depending on bin-prot optionally. (1) would be better, though
probably trickier and can benefit of someone having a big endian arch to
test it out ... any taker? :)
I'm giving a try at (2), which would be better than nothing ...
Cheers.
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