On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:53:43PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Quoting (and rearranging) text from myself: > > ledit (1.13-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > > * BIG FAT WARNING: ledit does not build against the new camlp4, we will > need > one of: > 1) packaging camlp4s (http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/) > 2) porting ledit to the new camlp4 > 3) dropping ledit from the archive > > Having read DDR's statement on the caml mailing list I'm pretty sure he > will never port ledit to the new camlp4. > > We can do (2) in Debian, but I think it's pointless, we have > alternatives to ledit and it would also practically mean forking ledit.
Notice, that until something happened in the recent times, i don't remember any upstream development to ledit. > We can do (3), which is reasonable precisely because we have > alternatives. Can you tell us which are the alternatives ? When i originally packaged ledit, nothing came really near, but i have not been following this stuff since then. > Or we can do (1), which might prove useful as I guess not every piece of > camlp4-related software will be ported to the new one, given that the > old one is available. > > Therefore I'm in favour of (1) (still, I haven't yet looked at binary > name conflicts or similar issues...), what do you think? I vote for (1) too. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
