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=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6D2BBAF for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:42:20 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmkDAOPqU0pDz4HegWdsb2JhbACZDgEBFiS2GoQIBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,367,1243807200"; d="scan'208";a="32670911" Received: from fettunta.fettunta.org ([67.207.129.222]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 08 Jul 2009 09:42:20 +0200 Received: from usha.takhisis.invalid (unknown [10.17.0.10]) by fettunta.fettunta.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0961D180C0 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:42:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by usha.takhisis.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3D11F661C; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:41:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:41:05 +0200 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Virtual packages in findlib Message-ID: <20090708074105.GB13478@usha.takhisis.invalid> References: <669097.48491.qm@web111515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <669097.48491.qm@web111515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam: no; 0.00; zacchiroli:01 zack:01 findlib:01 findlib:01 cheers:01 zacchiroli:01 postdoc:01 zack:01 2009:98 dietro:98 c'e:98 sempre:98 wrote:01 uno:98 pps:01 On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:55AM -0700, Dario Teixeira wrote: > having an order-preserving Ocamlbuild would be moot if findlib > supported some sort of virtual packages). Can you explain that? I don't see why virtual packages can resolve ordering problems. (Following your analogy, the same problems exist with Debian packages: if you have pre-dependencies which force an order among packages, you cannot fix that by resorting to virtual packages.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime