On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:26:15PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:19:53PM +0100, Remi VANICAT wrote: > > The big problem of this solution is that it is so unclean to have > > only empty directories for this. > > I use a solution similar to the one you propose with a global "meta" dir > which contains META using META.package META files as you suggest below, > it's a nice solution IMO. > > > By the way, with regard to policy, IMHO the META file should be into > > a subdirectory of /usr/share (there are only textual file). and I > > believe that ocamlfind understood the META.package notation (in place > > of package/META) so it may be a solution, but will need to heavily > > patch ocamlfind, and to change again all package. > > The META files placement is an issue that I've always postponed, but I'm > in favour of a "centralized" META respository somewhere in the > filesystem too.
Yes, let's go for it, what abou /usr/share/ocaml/3.06/meta ? We will put in there per directory files though. > IMO the transition is not so painful, just add an entry to the OCAMLPATH > and start moving there META files package per package, why you mention > patching findlib? Friendly, Sven Luther
