Hello, Upto now, it was not possible to build ocaml 3.06 with tcl/tk 8.4, but i have seen a patch for building it with tcl/tk 8.4 on the caml-list recently.
So, there is the possibility that i do a new upload of ocaml with tcl/tk 8.4, and also rebuild lablgl, and other tcl/tk using libraries/apps (there are not so much of them, i think). Or i could wait for ocaml 3.07 to do this. What would be your opinion on this ? Also, ocaml 3.07 will be released probably in the next month or so, and anyway well in time for the sarge release (for which a 6 until freeze and 6 month freeze time have been predicted). I hope to build 3.07 packages from the cvs version (with version number 3.06+cvs<date>, and providing ocaml-3.07) and upload them to experimental for everyone to test. One problem we will be having, is the new gdbm dependency, which is stopping ocaml 3.06-17 to enter testing, and will make it dissapear as soon as i upload 3.07-1. gdbm breaks over 1000 packages, so there is not much i can do. I did this change at the request of James Troup who is the gdbm maintainer. But many bug fixes went into 3.06-17, which cannot go into sarge. I will thus try to upload a 3.06-16.sarge.1 or whatever into testing-proposed-update, to fix those bugs, and will continue to do bugfixes this way, until the gdbm problem is fixed. ocaml-3.07 will be using the new gdbm approach, and tcl/tk 8.4, so it will probably be blocked until the gdbm issue is solved, which should let us more time to properly test it anyway. I will probably not have time for doing a true multiple parallel installable ocaml-3.07, and i believe that this needs changes to the ocaml install that needs to be discussed upstream (changing the ocamlrun name to be ocamlrun-<version> in the ocaml bytecode programs), but have not have had feedback on this from either Xavier or Pierre, who i approched with this. But then, they are busy with the preparation of the ocaml 3.07 release. Do anyone have any comment on this ? Anyway, i will see most of you on the FirstJeudi meeting :))) Friendly, Sven Luther
