Re: [Caml-list] [ANNOUNCE] otags reloaded 3.12.1 for OCaml 3.12.1
Le 26/01/2012 11:24, Hendrik Tews a écrit :
> It looks like a hostile takeover, and you cannot do that without the
> maintainer's agreement unless the package is orphaned.
>
> No, no hostility intended. It was only that at first, I didn't
> see your reply from January 19 (because it was debian-ocaml-maint
> only). I therefore thought it would be best if I go ahead and
> prepare a package. Only after I announced my package I saw your
> replay in the debian-ocaml-maint archives.
I recommend you to subscribe to debian-ocaml-maint.
> OK, I now understand that you want to keep otags in the git
> repository. What should I do in order to obtain write access
> there?
Ask for membership to pkg-ocaml-maint on Alioth. I recommend you to have
a look at [1].
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/OCamlTaskForce/
> As Ralf said, "camlp4-extra (>= 3.12.1), camlp4-extra (< 3.13.)"... but
> why do you want the "< 3.13" part?
>
> Otags works on the internal abstract syntax tree. It has to be
> changed with every major release. My new otags contains the
> camlp4 parsers internally. It is very likely that they will
> produce syntax errors with 3.13 sources. Further, with
> non-standard syntax extensions, otags uses an external camlp4 for
> parsing, which sends the ast back as marshaled value (printer
> DumpCamlp4). This cannot work with a different major version.
I don't see the point of putting this check in dependencies (or in
./configure for that matter). It puts a useless burden on whoever will
update the package. An explicit failure pointing directly at what needs
to be fixed is much more useful IMHO.
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
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