Hello, ... It has been nice to meet you all yesterday.
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:45:42AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:11:33PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Or i could wait for ocaml 3.07 to do this. > > What would be your opinion on this ? > > I think is better to fix the problem with ocaml 3.06. Release dates are > not certain at all. Well, but it is one of those out of our hands, waiting for things. > > 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 > > Is really not possible to handle this stuff only from the debian side? > For all programs that rely on /usr/bin/ocamlrun we can use a symlink to > /usr/bin/ocamlrun-3.07 (as we have already discussed IIRC). Yes, i believe we can do that, after all, depending on /usr/bin/ocamlrun-3.07 is not worse than using /usr/bin/ocamlrun instead of /usr/local/bin/ocamlrun. > I think it is important to try to handle this parallel installation. If > you have not enough time to work on it we can try to share the efforts > ... Well, i will try to add a new config option (-suffix ?) and have all the executables name completed with this suffix. The problem is that i am afraid to miss one or two of the internal usage of the executables (like ocamlc using /usr/bin/ocamlrun and such). But we can sort this out little by little. Once that is done, there will be not much more work to do. I will try to look at it on sunday, using the current CVS version as a future ocaml-3.07 package, but as i will be going both to linuxtag and to debcamp/debconf, i am not sure i will be having much time for it. before then, altough i may work on it at debcamp too. > Regarding gdbm is probably that a solution will be found, just because it > block too many packages. But actually we don't know how many problems There will be at least one more month of blocked situation, i guess most of those packages would only need a recompile, but then, you never know. > can encounter the new ocaml 3.07 package. This is another reason to try > to keep both the old 3.06 package and the new 3.07. My idea was that 3.06 would be in testing, and that we keep 3.07 in unstable, even if it breaks a bit, people really needing a stable ocaml could always fallback to the testing version. Friendly, Sven Luther
