From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71C9BC8C for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:33:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0GDXA5r007581 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:33:10 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14711 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:33:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr (postfix3-1.free.fr [213.228.0.44]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0GDX9r7007578 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:33:09 +0100 Received: from quatre.invalid (unknown [81.57.79.249]) by postfix3-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC5F1734D4; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:33:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from berke by quatre.invalid with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CqAWj-0006Gy-CS; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:33:09 +0100 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:33:09 +0100 From: Berke Durak To: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu, Jacques Garrigue , zack@debian.org, caml-list@inria.fr, debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [Caml-list] binary compatibility of 3.08.3 Message-ID: <20050116133308.GP4370@free.fr> References: <99C2C114-6583-11D9-B72B-000D9345235C@inria.fr> <20050113184137.GA24040@fistandantilus.takhisis.org> <20050113.150239.95895778.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <20050114133632.GA4923@pegasos> <891bd33905011407017d58a116@mail.gmail.com> <20050116132529.GA1467@pegasos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050116132529.GA1467@pegasos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41EA6D16.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41EA6D15.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; berke:01 durak:01 caml-list:01 binary:01 sven:01 luther:01 wrote:01 yaron:01 minsky:01 wrote:01 ocaml:01 dependencies:01 mips:01 hppa:01 ocaml:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:25:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:01:00AM -0500, Yaron Minsky wrote: > > It's worth mentioning that the pain of such upgrades is considerably > > reduced by the use of a package manager like GODI. It's hardly > > perfect, but it makes such things much easier. > > We already have a package manager, thank you all the same. The user won't see > a thing, but it is a hard thing for us debian package maintainers to rebuild > all packages that are dependent on ocaml on all 11 officially supported debian > architectures, and a bunch of unofficial ones, especially given the fact that > there are many dependencies, and there is at least one day lag in the > dependency chain building, and that some of our architectures are real slow to > build (m68k, mips/mipsel and s390 are the usual blockers, often arm and hppa > too). And so near to the sarge release, it is a real question if we should > forego the 3.08.3 changes or launch such a wide rebuild, which may miss the > freeze/release date anyway, or worse even, may make some important part of the > packages not being in the release at all. Luckily no ocaml package is part of > base/standard, and not affected by the base freeze. By the way, is m68k/s390/etc. stuff built on m68k/etc. ? Why not cross-compile on fast CPUs ? -- Berke Durak