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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CAABC69 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:13:22 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAFYRREeWy9CN/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,448,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="19547141" Received: from riemann.rsise.anu.edu.au ([150.203.208.141]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Nov 2007 20:13:21 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riemann.rsise.anu.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FACB6BA5D for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:13:17 +1100 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at rsise.anu.edu.au Received: from riemann.rsise.anu.edu.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (backend2.rsise.anu.edu.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OueuetoLGRQ8 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:13:10 +1100 (EST) Received: from pulp.rsise.anu.edu.au (pulp.rsise.anu.edu.au [150.203.208.49]) by riemann.rsise.anu.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:13:10 +1100 (EST) Received: by pulp.rsise.anu.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 1560) id D9B25A0FFCE; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:13:10 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:13:10 +1100 From: Pietro Abate To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Camlp5 release 5.03 Message-ID: <20071121191310.GA945@pulp.rsise.anu.edu.au> 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> X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux X-Organization: Research School of Information Science and Engineering (Australian National University) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Spam: no; 0.00; camlp:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 tarball:01 ocaml-base:01 camlp:01 5.03:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 maintainers:01 caml-list:01 philosophy:02 gnu:03 debian:04 debian:04 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 don't think you can say they are "forking" the OCaml distribution. Debian generates a number of packages from the inria tarball: - ocaml-nox - ocaml-libs - ocaml-interp - ocaml-base - ocaml-base-nox - camlp4 - camlp4-extra - ... and of top of these packages they are also shipping camlp5 from a different source file that is independent from the ocaml inria distribution. I guess RH is doing something similar... pietro -- ++ ++ "All great truths begin as blasphemies." -George Bernard Shaw ++ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html