Re: Policy, location of .cma files in binary packages, and dynlink...

[Sven Luther <sven@powerlinux.fr>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:21:01AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:42:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > If ocaml dynamic linking is now going to happen, the policy should be
> > adapted, and the separation will always be that whatever is needed at
> > runtime goes into the * package, and what is needed only at build time,
> > should go into the -dev packages.
> 
> With the problem that it is no longer sharp clear what goes where, see
> my post for the details, but you no longer knows whether at runtime only
> a .so is needed or also a bunch of .cma.

I don't believe that what is used is so undeterministic. But anyway, in
the case of dynamic loading, everything which *can* be needed at
runtime.

Friendly,

Sven Luther