From: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] extlib 1.6.0 released
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:51:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <529347C2.3000202@riken.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131125191546.08a22f18@kiwi.local.tld>
On 11/25/13, 8:15 PM, ygrek wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:10:21 +0800
> ygrek <ygrek@autistici.org> wrote:
>
>> * Install additionally `extlib_min` with reduced set of modules (to mitigate linking conflicts)
>
> After some more thought I don't really like this approach.
> See the reasoning in http://code.google.com/p/ocaml-extlib/issues/detail?id=23#c6
> The new approach (implemented in svn) is to include offending modules conditionally during extlib build
> time, so that extlib without UChar module can be easily integrated into codebases that don't depend on UChar,
> while others may take some time to amend the code. Basically the decision is being retargeted
> from code developer to the end-user/admin. Cursory research suggests that in opam there is one package
> using UTF8 module from extlib - namely javalib. So practically it means creating
> two opam packages extlib and extlib_full and promoting the first. This sounds better than having
> two ocamlfind packages, anyway.
> What do you think?
I even wonder why extlib is still out there.
I was thinking it was superseded by batteries.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-25 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-24 19:10 ygrek
2013-11-25 11:15 ` ygrek
2013-11-25 12:51 ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2013-11-28 19:57 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-11-29 0:43 ` Francois Berenger
2013-11-29 8:22 ` Sergei Lebedev
2013-11-26 9:36 ` ygrek
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