On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:47:50AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Hi, > > I've read the thread about ocaml 3.07 packages. > This is well known I don't agree with this because I think it > is useless and silly. I'd repeat that the problem comes from > testing scripts and not from ocaml packages, so testing script > must be fixed. > > I think that binaries must not be suffixed with a version because > compatibilities with other distro are going to be lost, especialy: > > - binary compatibility: binaries distributed must always > call #!/usr/bin/ocamlrun . Hence, you can run the same > binary everywhere. > > - source compatibility: autoconf scripts are seeking for > ocamlc, ocamlopt and so on. At least, symlinks must always > been there.
Another reason to move the ocaml package to ocaml-3.07 would be to satisfy the autobuilders who have difficulties handling virtual packages, but this can be handled independently of the -suffix stuff. The new package just would have to conflict with other versions or something such. Friendly, Sven Luther
