From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E62BBC69; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:17:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9BJH5rO025978 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:17:07 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1GXjZT-0006bL-00; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:16:51 +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:16:51 +0100 To: Guillaume Rousse Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why isn't ocaml distribution providing META files itself ? Message-ID: <20061011191651.GA25358@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <452D0E63.6080101@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <452D0E63.6080101@inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 452D4331.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 guillaume:01 ocamlfind:01 findlib:01 bug:01 ocaml:01 ocamlfind:01 2006:98 blog:98 blog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 camltk:03 camltk:03 distributed:05 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!