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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:02:10 +0100
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 4.00.0 is coming

On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 11:06:57AM +0200, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> I classify this change as "not a bug".

Right, I wasn't complaining, just wondering how this was going to be
resolved because it affects packaging in Fedora and whether/what
patches I send to upstream libraries.

> Gerd in PR#5268 complained that adding `#directory "+compiler_libs"`
> just to #load "toploop.cma" would result in some form of namespace
> [pollution?]
> The #remove_directory directive will fix this problem, but
> won't change (what I understand to be) Richard's issue, and also won't
> fix the "namespace pollution" aspect for compiled, rather than
> interactive programs.  Program using `-I +compiler_libs` directly have
> to add this path before any other path that contains module names that
> would conflict with one of the module in +compiler_libs.

This issue affects only ocaml-sexplib afaik.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat