On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:00:19AM -0400, Mike Furr wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been playing around with the ocaml package trying to produce a > patch for splitting it up. We have had several requests for this and > there seemed to be a consesus that each was a good idea, but I wanted to > make sure that we(or, at least Sven) agree on how to lay things out and > to get a big picture of the changes required. > The requests have been: > > a) split out the /usr/bin/ocaml interpreter so that ocaml can be used > more like a scripting langauge without pulling in a lot of > dependencies. (motivation: init scripts)[0] > b) split out the labltk files which pulls in lots of X and tk > dependencies. Note that this appears to have been requested in > two ways: > i) the runtime without tk (motivation: debmirror2 Depends: ??)[1] > ii) the compilers without tk (motivation: ocamlc on a zaurus)[2] > c) add internal libs from the compiler (typing/* utils/*...)[3] > > Currently, we just have ocaml and ocaml-base which provide the compilers > and runtime respectively. Implementing all of the above would create > the something like the following: > pkg depends contents > ------------------------------------------------------- > ocaml -nox,-base,-interp transitively everything > ocaml-base -base-nox full runtime > ocaml-base-nox runtime w/o tk > ocaml-nox -base-nox compilers w/o tk > ocaml-interp -base-nox interpreter, no tk > ocaml-compiler-libs ocaml extra libs > > Look good?
Sounds good indeed. Friendly, Sven Luther
