From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1447FBC69 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:10:15 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CANERREdQRFuw/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,448,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="4759881" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Nov 2007 20:10:14 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Iuuxb-0000a2-00; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:10:07 +0000 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:10:07 +0000 To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Camlp5 release 5.03 Message-ID: <20071121191006.GA31390@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <20071120095222.GA12460@yquem.inria.fr> <1195558393.6085.9.camel@Blefuscu> <20071121171947.GA17695@furbychan.cocan.org> <200711211801.08746.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200711211801.08746.jon@ffconsultancy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; camlp:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 ocaml-:01 ocamlc:01 ocamlopt:01 ocamldoc:01 camlp:01 labltk:01 ocamllibdir:01 findlib:01 makefile:01 5.03:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:01:08PM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2007 17:19, Richard Jones wrote: > > Debian ships both. Fedora will soon as well. > > So package maintainers are already forking the OCaml distribution into > separate parts? I guess it depends what you mean by "forking", but it's standard practice, in all areas not just OCaml, for a single source package (eg. ocaml-3.10.0.tar.gz) to generate many different binary packages (eg. ocamlc, ocamlopt, ocamldoc, camlp4, labltk, etc.) This means that you can install just the bits you need, and furthermore that another package only needs to depend upon the parts it actually uses -- this saves disk space & network bandwidth! The camlp5 package installs in $OCAMLLIBDIR/camlp5 so it doesn't conflict with camlp4 from the base OCaml package, with an appropriate findlib META file. You need to make some adjustments to your Makefile but those are usually very minor compared to rejigging your source to be compatible with the new camlp4. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat