On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:14:59PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:21:46PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > > BTW, stefano proposed to upload ocaml-3.06 and ocaml-3.07, and have > > > ocaml being a dummy package depending on the version we like. > > > > This works like this for Python (and GCC) because people have to provide > > multiple versions of libraries, one for each version. > > We clearly don't want to do that but rather ease transitions, and > > remove the old version of ocaml when possible. > > We must tell the use we do not support old versions of ocaml. > > I've retought about this a bit and I realized that to follow the python > way, as you stated, we have to add a new binary package to the archive > for every library and remove the old binary package afterward. > > This is really overkilling, I'd rather prefer the ocaml + ocaml cvs > snapshot solution now.
But even if we don't go this way, it is allright to move the ocamllibdir, isn't it ? the transition thingy need some more rigorous dependency with the libs, which is not something that is really cleared yet. Friendly, Sven Luther
