Long-time backwards compatibility is a good reason to use camlzip. I should be able to fix this when I get home from my current business trip.
On the naming side, I look at the names of packages uploaded to oasis-db, and a disturbing percentage of them are "ocaml-foo", when they should probably be called just "foo". i.e. when I'm looking for fileutils, it's not sorted under 'f', but is under 'o' for ocaml-fileutils. Especially for findlib package names, there's no good reason I can think of to have the ocaml- prefix. At one point in time, we had three copies of the camlzip package in oasis-db under different names; zip, camlzip and one more that I can't remember (maybe a capitalization variant). Am I making too big a deal of this? Is there a good reason to prefix newly created package names with "ocaml" or in the case of really old packages, "caml"? On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1...@gmail.com>wrote: > We notice the trunk version of camlzip has a new oasis file, which is > great. However the findlib name has been set to "zip", as where we've > always had it installed as "camlzip" (we install with godi). What should > the name be? Should we stick with the name the godi package has been using > for many years, or is there a good reason to change it to "zip"? > > Thanks. > >
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