Hello, ... I have begun work on making a ocaml-3.07 3.06.99.2003.07.05-1 package out of yesterdays CVS, and am working on a patch to add a suffix to the binaries. I will upload packages later today to :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/ocaml-3.07 and will accept uploads of other packages that were built with it also, so we can have a private repository for it. As said, libraries are in /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07, so cause no problems, binaries will all have the -3.07 suffix, and i modified the camlheader file, so ocamlc will generate ocamlrun-3.07 executables, but other things are missing, especially the emacs files, the manpages and so on. If you feel like providing me patches, i would be happy to accept them, but inform the list first in order to avoid duplicate work. I will not provide symlinks, these can be added later on, once we are satisfied with the package, and probably will come with the ocaml wrapper package instead. Also, i guess it will always be possible to run these bytecode programs on other system with ocamlrun <bytecode_file>, so there should be not much of a problem. Also, i would like to change the ocaml-3.07 package to the dpatch thing, but have not looked at how to do it yet, if someone want to provide a patch for this, you are welcome. And last, i have a question about optimized files, should they be : ocamlc-3.07.opt or ocamlc.opt-3.07 I have no experience with really using those, but i suppose that the build systems using the .opt compilers simply add a .opt at the end, thus i have privileged the first solution. Finally, shame on upstream, for providing build stuff of varying quality which make using a $(SUFFIX) a bit more complicated. Some seem to be even broken when using a $(EXE) suffix. It would be nice if these would be cleaned up and a bit more homogenized before the 3.07 release. ocamldoc, camlp4 and labltk seem to be the more problematic sub-projects. Friendly, Sven Luther
