On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:24:46PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > 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.
He don't need to install emacs in that case, does he ? > > > (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. Mmm, yes i could. > > 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 Well, not really splitting, i will not touch the ocaml source package, just create a new one. > 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. Ok, i will see about this. BTW, laurent is using xemacs21, i think. Friendly, Sven Luther
