On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:11:33PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > Upto now, it was not possible to build ocaml 3.06 with tcl/tk 8.4, but i > have seen a patch for building it with tcl/tk 8.4 on the caml-list > recently. > > So, there is the possibility that i do a new upload of ocaml with tcl/tk > 8.4, and also rebuild lablgl, and other tcl/tk using libraries/apps > (there are not so much of them, i think). > > Or i could wait for ocaml 3.07 to do this. > > What would be your opinion on this ? > > Also, ocaml 3.07 will be released probably in the next month or so, and > anyway well in time for the sarge release (for which a 6 until freeze and > 6 month freeze time have been predicted). > > I hope to build 3.07 packages from the cvs version (with version number > 3.06+cvs<date>, and providing ocaml-3.07) and upload them to > experimental for everyone to test. > > One problem we will be having, is the new gdbm dependency, which is > stopping ocaml 3.06-17 to enter testing, and will make it dissapear as > soon as i upload 3.07-1. gdbm breaks over 1000 packages, so there is not > much i can do. I did this change at the request of James Troup who is > the gdbm maintainer. > > But many bug fixes went into 3.06-17, which cannot go into sarge. I will > thus try to upload a 3.06-16.sarge.1 or whatever into > testing-proposed-update, to fix those bugs, and will continue to do > bugfixes this way, until the gdbm problem is fixed. > > ocaml-3.07 will be using the new gdbm approach, and tcl/tk 8.4, so it > will probably be blocked until the gdbm issue is solved, which should > let us more time to properly test it anyway. > > I will probably not have time for doing a true multiple parallel > installable ocaml-3.07, and i believe that this needs changes to the > ocaml install that needs to be discussed upstream (changing the ocamlrun > name to be ocamlrun-<version> in the ocaml bytecode programs), but have > not have had feedback on this from either Xavier or Pierre, who i > approched with this. But then, they are busy with the preparation of the > ocaml 3.07 release. > > Do anyone have any comment on this ? Anyway, i will see most of you on > the FirstJeudi meeting :))) > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > >
Hello, Well, i don't know if i am permit to say anything... But i will do it. To my mind, labltk* is not a really grave issue, since there is a lot of packages who still depends on it. I think it is more clever to wait for 3.07 release. Patching the source is never the best way to do things ( but i use it ), it is heavy and not so compatible ( especially if you patch many times ). Concerning Sarge -16.sarge release i think it is also a good solution. And finally : the versionned install, i think it is an upstream things ( which could ****really**** be made soon ). Keeping the actuall /3.06/ is a good way to keep us safe from a soon to come changes ( even if they don't reply, i think it is a two lines hack... wait and see ). Regard Sylvain LE GALL ( Non Maintainer )
