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Why isn't ocaml distribution providing META files itself ?
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Guillaume Rousse
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Richard Jones
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| From: | Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@i...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Why isn't ocaml distribution providing META files itself ? |
Richard Jones wrote: > 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. That would have far most side-effects. I'm just advocating shipping data files for ocamlfind. > Hang on, this question comes from INRIA .. They are different teams at INRIA :) -- Guillaume Rousse Projet Estime, INRIA Domaine de Voluceau Rocquencourt - B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex - France