Re: Splitting pgocaml.
Hello,
On 15-06-2009, Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Stéphane Glondu a écrit :
>>
>> There is at least one existing applications (ocsimore) which dynamically
>> loads pgocaml (that was my interest for packaging pgocaml in the first
>> place). You should build the cmxs, make two binary packages
>> (libpgocaml-ocaml and libpgocaml-ocaml-dev) and put cma/cmxs/META in
>> libpgocaml-ocaml, and the rest in -dev package to cope with this
>> situation. There is no documentation (besides #500036) for this yet, but
>> you can have a look at react or ocaml-text, for example.
>>
>>> There's also a profiler for pgocaml which is not yet packaged. Should I
>>> create another binary package for it? If so, what naming convention
>>> should apply for the profiler package?
>>
>> I would say it depends on how it is used, and its size. This is a
>> debugging tool, isn't it? So it could be put in the -dev package. Is it
>> 100 times bigger that the library itself? Then, maybe it is worth
>> putting it in a separate binary package... I would probably put it in
>> -dev first, and wait for someone to give a good reason to put it apart.
>
> It seems that I have some splitting to do. I found the following
> documentation:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/PkgSplit
>
> However, I have no idea what should be amended in order to play nicely
> with cdbs. Advice welcome.
>
Why don't you take the option of shipping this profiler into the -dev
package ?
It is not a general purpose tools and -dev package have probably a lot
of thing in common with this tool...
Regards
Sylvain Le Gall
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