On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:28:56PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:58:12AM +1000, skaller wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 14:26 +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:17:27PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:10:45PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > > > > In particular I could do it if INRIA said that they would support the > > > > > change in some future release (see the exception "Patches Heading > > > > > Upstream"). But otherwise this is quite a large ABI change -- if > > > > > Fedora users started to build lots of 64 bit shared libraries linked > > > > > with -lcamlrun I could end up maintaining it separately forever. > > > > > > [I meant to say -lcamlrun_shared here] > > > > > > > I think you misunderstood my proposal. I don't want to apply your > > > > initial fix which changes libcamlrun.a into libcamlrun.so. I want to add > > > > a libcamlrun_shared.so, so there would be no ABI change, just the added > > > > possibility to link against it. > > > > > > > > Or maybe you're concerned about having to drop in the future support for > > > > libcamlrun_shared.so, but I think the user impact of that new library > > > > would be quite low. In fact I don't think anything else that > > > > mod_caml-like projects will need it ... > > > > > > That would also need to go upstream before Fedora could accept it. > > > > Why? I would have thought it is close to *policy* to provide > > libraries for both static and dynamic link. > > Please don't get me wrong here: I want the patch in OCaml, I want > Fedora to follow Debian's packaging decisions where possible, and I > want to have mod_caml & ocamlnet + Apache working. But this patch is > a big potential change to the API and it can't go in to Fedora unless > INRIA accept it upstream, and that concern overrides other issues. > Hopefully INRIA will indicate that they want to accept this in which > case it can go in to Fedora straightaway.
So an update here is that obviously INRIA have accepted the change, so it'll go into Fedora soon. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
