From: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GODI, second version
Date: 07 Aug 2003 12:55:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060253758.956.22.camel@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030806100552Z.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Am Mit, 2003-08-06 um 03.05 schrieb Jacques Garrigue:
> From: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
> > there is now an improved version of GODI for download:
> >
> > http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/godi-bootstrap-20030805.tar.gz
> >
> > - The bootstrap script tries to pre-configure labltk. It looks into
> > much more locations that the O'Caml configure script. I think this
> > was one of the biggest problems in the first release.
>
> OK. Nice attempt, and properly splitting the work with ocaml's
> configuration script.
> By the way, I'm not sure this is a good idea to make labltk an
> optional package, for two reasons:
> - since it gets configured with ocaml, you have to recompile ocaml if
> something goes wrong (your pre-search may help, but since you don't
> check by explicitly linking this may still be wrong).
> - it includes ocamlbrowser, which is an ocaml tool expected to be
> there
>
> If your motivation is to allow binary packages including only part of
> the stuff, then it might be a better idea to make ocaml a metapackage,
> and have packages ocaml-core, ocaml-graphics, ocaml-labltk,
> ocaml-camlp4 as dependencies.
I am more thinking of server installations without X windows, so the
split is X/non-X. camlp4 is part of the main ocaml package, there is
really no need to have it separate.
Maybe a solution of the configuration problem is to run the configure
script again for labltk, but only to use the labltk-specific results
(i.e. tkdefs, tklibs). This is more user-friendly than the current
solution, and there is no danger to configure the various parts in an
incompatible way.
Meta packages: nice idea, but the question is what the users want to
have. Maybe they are more interested in "distribution sets" for tasks,
i.e. a graphics set, a web set, a database set, ...
Gerd
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-05 15:08 Gerd Stolpmann
2003-08-05 18:30 ` Alexander V. Voinov
2003-08-06 0:39 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-05 7:53 ` Issac Trotts
2003-08-06 1:05 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-07 10:55 ` Gerd Stolpmann [this message]
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