On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:02:34PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:57:05PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:26:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:44:42PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > > > > BTW, I'd advice that you provide the emacs mode separately, in > > > > a package called "ocaml-mode". > > > > > > Ok, i can do that, but i don't really like it a lot. It is part of the > > > ocaml source package, and any trouble i would have with the emacs mode > > > would mean a new upload to ocaml also. > > > > Splitting off a new binary package (with architecture=all) is > > easy. The emacs files of the ocaml package currently take > > 164 kB for the el (emacs-lisp sourec) files, plus 100 - 124 kB > > per flavour. Hence, if you have three flavours of emacs installed > > Err, the 100-124 per flavor are the ones that get compiled at install > time, aren't they.
That's correct. It doesn't concern package size, but it is still a waste of space on the users machine if he doesn't want this emacs mode. > > (like me) then this sums up to 0.5MB. Seems worth to split it off, > > in particular since, as Jérôme said, tuareg-mode is much more > > popular. In fact I know of noone who uses the original ocaml > > emacs mode. > > Ok, altough i guess there is a reason for it being shipped with ocaml > and not tuareg. Maybe. You may ask the ocaml people. > What about maintaining it separatedly then ? in his own source package i > split of from the ocaml source ? You still would have to split the source package. If it really bugs you then I would rather suggest to drop it alltogether, and only have tuareg-mode packaged. If you are still on the ocaml mailing list (I'm not) then you might ask there if someone is using the original ocaml emacs mode. - Ralf. --
