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Why isn't ocaml distribution providing META files itself ?
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Guillaume Rousse
- Richard Jones
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| From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Why isn't ocaml distribution providing META files itself ? |
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:31:47PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > I just found a subtle problem on mandriva: ocamlfind returns camltk to > be present, whereas it is not. Actually, the problems comes from the > fact than findlibd generate META files during its installation for all > core libraries installed on the build host, and those files get > distributed in the findlib package itself. Which can perfectly get > installed without camltk... > > This is strictly a mandriva packaging bug. However, trying to provide > informations about package X in another package Y, because X doesn't do > it directly, is likely to produce many other similar problems. Is there > a reason to not provide META files directly from ocaml distribution itself ? I think ocamlfind is very simple and useful and should be available in base OCaml itself. Hang on, this question comes from INRIA .. > Projet Estime, INRIA :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Internet Marketing and AdWords courses - http://merjis.com/courses - NEW! Merjis blog - http://blog.merjis.com - NEW!