On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:09:45PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Selon Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > This is not philosophy. I'm waiting for you to explain how to > > > handle dependencies and to avoid 2 packages built against > > > different ocaml to depend upon each other, and so on. > > > > Ok. It depends on tzo different possible goals. In the easy one, it is > > easy : > > > > We only support multiple ocaml versions, not libraries. We build all > > packages with the latest official package (the one ocaml wrapps and > > provies symlinks to). There is no difference from now, it is > > transparent for the user, apart from the ocamlrun issue. > > > > In the more advanced setup, it is more complicated : > > > > We do as above, but on top of that, we build all libraries for each > > packages. We also use an advanced naming scheme for libraries, > > embedding both its compatibility version (needed by Stefano, but maybe > > not all libs) and its ocaml version, to obtain things like > > libfoo-<foo_version>-ocaml-<ocaml_version>[-dev]. > > *Caugh* *Caugh*
Sure, but there is really no other scheme. Notice that some of the package don't really need a library version embedded, so we can just have, for example, libzip-ocaml-3.07, which will not be all that ugly after all. > > This second step gives quite ugly names for library, so maybe we could > > also provide a virtual package with just the library name (foo) and the > > devel name (foo-dev) on the latest library version going with the latest > > official ocaml (the one the ocaml package points to). > > > > It implies some work for the library packagers, but not too much. I > > don't really know if this is worth it, but it would be the more complete > > solution. > > It is quite overkilling. Yep, but maybe not as much as you think. > ... > > > Anyway, please read again the first mails i sent after i did the suffix > > work. I told it was some heavy work, and that i was not entirely sure it > > was worth it, and asking for opinions (but opinions after having looked > > at what i did do). > > But what does Xavier think of it, really? I don't know, i wrote him and Pierre tw oor three times about this in passing in other mails, and never got a reply. That is why i was asking Maxence if he could get us a feeling of the ocaml team about this. I will maybe simply ask him directly when i come back from debconf. Friendly, Sven Luther
