Re: ocaml-findlib: to X or not to X

2004-07-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:28:36PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:37:04AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Just one last question though, how will findlib react if you have a package > > which needs one of the X components, and it is not installed ? > > Probably the be

Re: ocaml-findlib: to X or not to X

2004-07-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:26:46PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:37:04AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > What about a dependency on ocaml-nox, and a recomends on ocaml ? > > It doesn't solve the problem since most of the dpkg frontend complains > about missing recomme

Re: ocaml-findlib: to X or not to X

2004-07-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:37:04AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Just one last question though, how will findlib react if you have a package > which needs one of the X components, and it is not installed ? Probably the best thing to do would be to distribute META files separated from ocamlfind itse

Re: ocaml-findlib: to X or not to X

2004-07-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:37:04AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > What about a dependency on ocaml-nox, and a recomends on ocaml ? It doesn't solve the problem since most of the dpkg frontend complains about missing recommended packages. Moreover it's also not appropriate since ocamlfind works proper

Re: ocaml-findlib: to X or not to X

2004-07-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:09:29PM +0200, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen wrote: > > Just one last question though, how will findlib react if you have a package > > which needs one of the X components, and it is not installed ? > > The "ocamlfind list" command should list also the uninstalled package >

Re: ocaml-findlib: to X or not to X

2004-07-27 Thread Claudio Sacerdoti Coen
> Just one last question though, how will findlib react if you have a package > which needs one of the X components, and it is not installed ? The "ocamlfind list" command should list also the uninstalled package (since it looks only for the META files). And all the other commands will invoke

Re: ocaml-findlib: to X or not to X

2004-07-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:52:03AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The ocaml 3.08 aware version of ocaml-findlib depends on ocaml-3.08 > instead of ocaml-nox-3.08. Since a lot of ocaml related packages depends > on it, this means that the nox split is almost useless. > > Strictly speaking findl

ocaml-findlib: to X or not to X

2004-07-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
The ocaml 3.08 aware version of ocaml-findlib depends on ocaml-3.08 instead of ocaml-nox-3.08. Since a lot of ocaml related packages depends on it, this means that the nox split is almost useless. Strictly speaking findlib is not completely X free since it ships some META files for, for example, t