Selon Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:19:59PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > > We have ever spoken about symlink, that surely should be present and > > > provide backward compatibility with the current (3.06) situation. The > > How? > > I suspect I have been misunderstood. I didn't mean 3.06/3.07 > compatibility. I mean that executing ocaml/ocamlc/ocamlopt/... will run > the latest installed ocaml tools. > > > > ocaml 3.07 package built by Sven has not yet them, just because it was > > > an experiment to try if it is possible to add the -<version> suffix. > > This is why it is wrong, since such packages do not provide the symlinks. > > You're right, indeed they are not meant to be uploaded (or at least I > wont agree on such an upload :-).
I thought it was intentional not to provide them. > Take them as a first step toward the final solution that will be > uploaded, Sven has not much time to work on them and we are sharing > efforts. If you can add symlinks _now_ you can do it and we will have a > better package sooner :-PPPP > Otherwise we should wait for Sven to add symlinks stuff. > > > And if they provide symlinks, there is no point providing versioned > > suffixes. > > This is not true. Having symlink permits you to have installed at the > same time 3.06 and 3.07 ocaml versions and therefore permit the new > ocaml package to start walking toward the testing entrance before the > old one is removed. As far as I know, Sven intends to provide them in a separate package. This is the major disagreement. I once proposed that the symlinks be part of the latest version. The other disagreement is about the versioned shebang line in the bytecodes. > > Am I going to provide alternative ocaml packages ? };-> > > I would rather prefer you to improve Sven's :-) If only my point was understood .. :-) -- Jérôme Marant
