On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:27:42AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:16:50PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:18:42PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Yeah, but you had some concerns about the new ocamldbi not being compatible > > > with the dbi stuff in extlib. > > > > Ah yes indeed, that is true. > > > > It's a real problem having the Dbi module in ExtLib too. I think the > > best thing is for me to ask Nicolas Cannasse to remove it. In the > > longer term, Dbi should be either completely in ExtLib or completely > > separate from it, not a strange mixture of the two as now .. > > Frankly, I have yet to comprehend what purpose Dbi in ExtLib serves. I > have seen it there, ignored it, and tried to fathom its purpose in life > but drawn a blank. I suppose if somebody wrote a SQL database in pure > OCaml it could go into ExtLib (there is such a beast for Python called > Gadfly). But, AFAIK, no such thing exists.
(yet) > As to the question about including it in sarge/sid (this was the first I > heard of a question), you should know that I have been tracking the > OcamlDBI CVS for some time now, and likely the final release is not much > different from the one that we already have, which was last updated on > July 28. I will, of course, pursue updating to the latest version ASAP. Well, there have been some incompatible changes yesterday, so ... And using mod-caml failed with the old version since it tried to load perl into apache, while i just wanted the postgresql backend. > For Sven... I do not believe it is appropriate to force this into sarge. > It should be uploaded to unstable and progress into testing in the usual Err, the alternative is : A) upload the new version to unstable with urgency=medium and let it move to testing with the rest of ocaml 3.08. B) upload the new version into experimental and keep the old version in unstable and thus sarge. > manner. Forcing untested upstream upgrades into testing opens ourselves > up to exactly the sort of thing that sarge is supposed to prevent, and > "the version in testing is outdated" is not, to me, an acceptable reason > to forsake normal quality assurance procedures. Well, the version in unstable don't allow me to upload mod-caml, nor cocanwiki. But see above. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
