On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:32:09PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > 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 :-).
Wrong they can be uploaded all the same, they will not hurt anyone because nobody will use them until we replace the ocaml package by a symlink providing package. > 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. The symlink should go in a separate package, as gcc does. If this is not nice, i would like to hear about it. > > 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. Like for gcc : => gcc -> will call gcc-3.3 right now. => gcc-3.3, gcc-3.2 or gcc-2.95 will call the corresponding versions. > > > Am I going to provide alternative ocaml packages ? };-> > > I would rather prefer you to improve Sven's :-) :)) Friendly, Sven Luther > > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy > [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ > " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not > sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! " -- G.Romney
