On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:00:45PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:36:00AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:52:53PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have just finish to fixed the policy document you can found on > > > pkg-ocaml-maint / dh-make-ocaml/trunk/policy. There is a master document > > > ( ocaml_packaging_policy.xml ) and chapter/appendix. > > > > > > Off course, they need to be filled by something ( sorry i have no time > > > to do something more clean ). > > > > Ok, i will try to add some of the stuff from the old policy document in > > time, provided i can use conglomerate or something such for it. If not i > > will just post the paragraphs, and leave the work of actually adding > > them to someon more XML fluent. > > > > I am sorry Sven, i think it could not be edited with conglomerate. I > give it a try and it fails almost immediatly. Furhtermore, i have > separated chapter in XML entity, and it is not a feature supported by > conglomerate.
Ok. But nice to know, i will try and feed the result to the conglomerate co-maintainer and upstream. > > > As we have discussed on friday night : > > > - choose between putting META file either in stdlibdir/META.package > > > or stdlibdir/package/META ( we have choose the second one because it is > > > the default way of doint this with ocamlfind... ) > > > > As i understood it, they go in package/META, because the other method > > was not supported yet by findlib. If that has changed, it would be nicer > > to put them all in a ocamllib/METAS directory, and have findlib modified > > accordyingly. > > Yes, it is possible. Maybe we can propose a mix of approach : > Either put it in the package/ or in the METAS/ ( if the package > doesn't support findlib ). Huh ? Notice that in the case of lablgtk for example, it is not always possible to put it in package. > I really don't know. To my mind i prefer one META per subdirectory, each > subdirectory containing the all the package libs. Which clutters the stdlib. Let's move it to a METAS directory, like we did with the dll.so files. Friendly, Sven Luther
