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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>,
	Caml_mailing list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocamlbuild with findlib + camlp4
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:17:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080311201737.GA28226@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <291305.97847.qm@web54606.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 05:32:48PM +0000, Dario Teixeira wrote:
> All that we need now is GODI packages for the most requested syntax
> extensions, and to make sure that packagers build compliant META files
> (I have noticed that not all GODI packages ship with findlib+camlp4
> compliant META files).  Soon, I will write down an OSR formalising
> this latter aspect.

Yes, getting good META files is important.  Debian require them and
have done so for ages, and just today I changed the Fedora guidelines
so that META files are no longer optional but are required, must be
checked by reviewers _and_ must be submitted to upstream developers.
I hope this will improve the quality of META files.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-11 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05 13:41 Dario Teixeira
2008-03-05 15:08 ` [Caml-list] " Romain Bardou
2008-03-06 15:31   ` Dario Teixeira
2008-03-06 15:46     ` Pietro Abate
2008-03-06 19:45       ` Dario Teixeira
2008-03-06 22:14         ` Pietro Abate
2008-03-07  9:26     ` Romain Bardou
2008-03-07 14:46       ` Dario Teixeira
2008-03-07 15:01         ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-03-07 16:12           ` Dario Teixeira
2008-03-08 11:36             ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-03-10 15:33               ` Dario Teixeira
2008-03-10 16:15                 ` Romain Bardou
2008-03-10 21:13                   ` Dario Teixeira
2008-03-10 19:56                 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2008-03-10 21:15                   ` Dario Teixeira
2008-03-11 10:37                 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-03-11 13:49                   ` Romain Bardou
2008-03-11 15:03                     ` Romain Bardou
2008-03-11 17:32                   ` Dario Teixeira
2008-03-11 20:17                     ` Richard Jones [this message]
2008-03-11 10:41       ` Nicolas Pouillard

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