Selon Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think that binaries must not be suffixed with a version because > > compatibilities with other distro are going to be lost, especialy: > > > > - binary compatibility: binaries distributed must always > > call #!/usr/bin/ocamlrun . Hence, you can run the same > > binary everywhere. > > We are broken anyway, since other distros use mostly > /usr/local/bin/ocamlrun, and anyway, i guess if we go this way, other > distros will go this way also. I hope upstream also has a chance to > going this way, but they didn't comment on it despite my repeated > questions.
No, this is wrong. Red Hat and Mandrake, the most widely used commercial distro are using /usr/bin . > Also, notice that it is ever possible to run the bytecode executables as > ocamlrun bytecode_file, and it will work whatever was descripted in the > #! entry. This is stupid. You never run bytecode this way. +x chmod'ing the bytecode should be enough. > I think this is a false problem, since after all the user could have > ocamlrun installed anywhere, and it could break anyway. Also, i don't > really care much about other distros or broken self installations. I > will not specially make thin,gs difficult for them, but not go out of my > way to stay compatible with them also, especially if said compatibility > thingy is a wrong problem like here. You _have to_ care for other distro because users of ocaml packages may distribute binaries that _should_ be executable on other distro. Debian _cares_ for compatibilities with others distros (that's what LSB is for). > > - source compatibility: autoconf scripts are seeking for > > ocamlc, ocamlopt and so on. At least, symlinks must always > > been there. > > Yep, this is a problem. But it is nothing we can't fix or educate > upstream to find. Also, there will be transparent 'latest ocaml' > wrappers, so there should be no problem, like with gcc, where you can > use either gcc or gcc-<version>. We have to fix stuff to build without > the wrapper in our packages though. Why would the ocaml team support old versions of their compiler? > But again, it was kind of an experiment, i want feedback, and maybe we > should also get upstream opinion or the opinion of the community at > large. Maxence, can you comment on this, maybe, or ask Xavier > personnally about it ? You may need a rationale before asking ... -- Jérôme Marant
