Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> Well, my idea was to have all packages fill a /usr/bin/ocamlrun-3.06 and > so, and have the compiler use that when building programs. We can sure > have a ocamlrun -> ocamlrun-3.06 symlink (set by the dummy ocaml package > maybe) as an alternative and not a diversion. Anyway, i guess mostly > nobody runs ocamlrun directly anyway. > > BTW, diversions would not work, since what we want is to be able to run > binaries compiled with ocaml 3.06 _and_ also binaries built with ocaml > 3.07. it will not do to have to move the diversions around or to > remove/install packages by the way. > my problem is to run program like camlgrenouille : camlgrenouille is distributed as a binary package containing a #/usr/bin/ocamlrun script. I would like to be able to run it out of the box. Then diversion can be useful for having this ocamlrun in several package at the same time. > Notice that we already discussed this some time ago, and we agreed that > we will not keep multiple versions at the same time, since this will be > to heavy a weight on the maintainers, so these plans are only for the > transition period and maybe for the CVS version. well, my problem is not a transition problem. it is the use of third party program. -- Rémi Vanicat [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat
