On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 18:58 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > On sab, 2008-09-27 at 08:28 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > > While that's true for major changes, if there are updates that would > > help > > you should feel free to suggest them. > > Let's clarify this a bit more: ubuntu has a huge set of ocaml packages, > that makes it appear a wonderful platform for ocaml development. > Unfortunately in ocaml you need to build dependencies in the right > order, because - if I recall this correctly - depending libraries store > an hash coding of the ancestor in the dependency graph, and refuse to > load if this does not match. Thus, we currently have in ubuntu a huge > set of packages that just can't be used, and one tipically resorts to a > local installation of ocaml.
This sounds like it could be easily fixed by a set of no-change binary rebuilds, something that would almost certainly be acceptable at this (and almost any) stage of development. [...snip..] > Perhaps the right thing to do is to invent a > way to build dependencies in order on build servers? > I may be missing some of the subtleties here, but why can't this be handled right now using versioned build-depends?
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