Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:25:41PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: >> I'll accept anything as long as: >> - we respect compatibility with other distro as I explained >> - we (every maintainer) don't have to support more than the latest >> version of ocaml > > Nobody says that maintainers "have to"! > > I only made a proposal that permit maintaners who are willing to, to do > it. Is it so counterproducing to leave this additional door open?
It was not clear whether we would have the choice. > An additional good point in supporting also old versions is that with > ocaml 3.07 some backward incompatibilities have been added. Which means the code would have to be fixed anyway. > If this trend is going to be maintained in next release (hopefully I > would say, given that better improvement to the language could be added > only with some sacrifices) there will be people that can be in need of > old ocaml versions. Old versions can go into people.debian.org ;-P -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
