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

[Stephane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>]

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > Do we have some statistics about the size of each of these packages ? If
> > > the size is not such an impact, we can just drop the -dev version.
> > +1 
>
> I understand this, but as distribution editors factorizing out common
> part is what we are usually most concerned about. But I agree that some
> stats would be nice, any taker? :-)

Attached are sizes of binary packages libxxx-ocaml{,-dev} (I've just 
picked a random version of the .deb file on an mirror).

> Still, the idea of having to install on my system stuff like HTML API
> reference of a library to be able to dynamically load bytecode objects
> does not make me thaaaaaat happy.

+1

--
Stéphane

      4746 libsyslog-ocaml
      5202 libogg-ocaml
      5616 libmad-ocaml
      5822 libtaglib-ocaml
      6070 libsoundtouch-ocaml
      6152 libzip-ocaml
      6286 libao-ocaml
      6522 libportaudio-ocaml
      6974 libagrep-ocaml
      7402 libladspa-ocaml
      7430 libshout-ocaml
      7898 libgdome2-xslt-ocaml
      8028 libequeue-ocaml
      8648 libpgsql-ocaml
     10230 libpostgresql-ocaml
     10442 libocamlnet-ocaml
     10452 libexpat-ocaml
     10462 libalsa-ocaml
     10484 libmysql-ocaml
     10514 libvorbis-ocaml
     10924 libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml
     11066 libmlpcap-ocaml
     11344 liblablgtkmathview-ocaml
     11728 libssl-ocaml
     13302 libsqlite3-ocaml
     13682 libldap-ocaml
     13796 liblablgtksourceview-ocaml
     14156 libsha-ocaml
     14894 libeditex-ocaml
     15724 libpcre-ocaml
     16146 libcurl-ocaml
     16536 libperl4caml-ocaml
     20006 libcairo-ocaml
     20184 libcryptokit-ocaml
     21282 libgmp-ocaml
     22622 libcurses-ocaml
     23928 libcamlimages-ocaml
     26900 liblablgtk2-gl-ocaml
     26910 libgdome2-ocaml
     29836 libcf-ocaml
     30840 libsdl-ocaml
     32540 libyaml-syck-ocaml
     38538 liblablgtk2-gnome-ocaml
     42690 libmlgtk-ocaml
     54086 liblablgl-ocaml
     59190 libgv-ocaml
     88142 liblablgtk-ocaml
    106038 libocamlgsl-ocaml
    108792 libdbi-ocaml
    124078 libnumerix-ocaml
    130250 liblablgtk2-ocaml
    225478 libsqlite-ocaml

      7454 libsoundtouch-ocaml-dev
      8598 libogg-ocaml-dev
     10660 libyaml-syck-ocaml-dev
     11664 libgetopt-ocaml-dev
     12158 libsyslog-ocaml-dev
     12776 libxmlplaylist-ocaml-dev
     13410 libportaudio-ocaml-dev
     14596 libtaglib-ocaml-dev
     15280 libexpat-ocaml-dev
     17422 libokey-ocaml-dev
     18906 libmlpcap-ocaml-dev
     19278 libao-ocaml-dev
     19958 libsqlite-ocaml-dev
     20028 libgdome2-xslt-ocaml-dev
     20638 libladspa-ocaml-dev
     20770 libgpattern-ocaml-dev
     20770 liblwt-ocaml-dev
     20958 libeditex-ocaml-dev
     21482 libocamlodbc-ocaml-dev
     23654 libsha-ocaml-dev
     24380 libmlchat-ocaml-dev
     26340 libounit-ocaml-dev
     28614 libequeue-gtk2-ocaml-dev
     32484 libagrep-ocaml-dev
     32484 libalsa-ocaml-dev
     33690 libsqlite3-ocaml-dev
     34344 libocamlnet-gtk2-ocaml-dev
     36352 libbenchmark-ocaml-dev
     37814 liboptions-ocaml-dev
     38094 liblastfm-ocaml-dev
     38824 libregexp-pp-ocaml-dev
     50282 libdtools-ocaml-dev
     50668 libpostgresql-ocaml-dev
     51260 liblablgtk2-gl-ocaml-dev
     52110 libmysql-ocaml-dev
     52124 libmad-ocaml-dev
     54168 libpgsql-ocaml-dev
     59258 liblablgtkmathview-ocaml-dev
     61588 libshout-ocaml-dev
     63018 libxstr-ocaml-dev
     66074 libcairo-ocaml-dev
     67194 libxml-light-ocaml-dev
     69404 libcurl-ocaml-dev
     70934 libdbi-ocaml-dev
     71888 libgmp-ocaml-dev
     71978 libpcre-ocaml-dev
     72476 libxmlrpc-light-ocaml-dev
     73418 libzip-ocaml-dev
     75042 libocamlnet-ssl-ocaml-dev
     76212 libreport-ocaml-dev
     85776 libcurses-ocaml-dev
    100022 libvorbis-ocaml-dev
    100440 libcryptgps-ocaml-dev
    107838 liblablgtksourceview-ocaml-dev
    125098 libcalendar-ocaml-dev
    126186 libldap-ocaml-dev
    142090 libfileutils-ocaml-dev
    142646 libocamlcvs-ocaml-dev
    142846 libcreal-ocaml-dev
    143298 libmissinglib-ocaml-dev
    144926 libssl-ocaml-dev
    154136 libsdl-ocaml-dev
    169974 liblablgl-ocaml-dev
    181740 libnumerix-ocaml-dev
    200346 liblablgtk2-gnome-ocaml-dev
    201084 libgdome2-ocaml-dev
    207016 libhttp-ocaml-dev
    209266 libperl4caml-ocaml-dev
    267028 libextlib-ocaml-dev
    303542 libcryptokit-ocaml-dev
    324248 libcameleon-ocaml-dev
    460668 libconfigwin-ocaml-dev
    485824 libocamlgsl-ocaml-dev
    549024 libocamlgraph-ocaml-dev
    654614 libequeue-ocaml-dev
    659888 libfacile-ocaml-dev
    683798 libnetclient-ocaml-dev
    771526 libcamlimages-ocaml-dev
    773982 librpc-ocaml-dev
    787294 libmlgtk-ocaml-dev
   1002424 libreins-ocaml-dev
   1058618 libcf-ocaml-dev
   1176934 libnethttpd-ocaml-dev
   1411906 libcamomile-ocaml-dev
   1452224 libocamlnet-ocaml-dev
   1541354 libpxp-ocaml-dev
   1850278 liblablgtk-ocaml-dev
   2151198 liblablgtk2-ocaml-dev