Re: Policy, location of .cma files in binary packages, and dynlink...
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>> The easiest way I see for now is to create an empty package
>> ocaml-abi-N.NN and make libraries and programs doing dynamic loading
>> depend on this package but this is quite intrusive and heavy. Does
>> anybody has a better idea?
>
> Yes in principle, but why we need a new empty package? Can't we just add
> the provides to ocaml-base-nox? It won't be possible for any bytecode
> OCaml program to use bytecode objects without that package, so why
> looking for a new one?
I agree with you but we should also think of native dynlinking, which
shouldn't require ocaml-base...
Cheers,
Samuel.
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