From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE65EBC8A for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:28:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0UFSoJZ004744 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:28:51 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA24290 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:28:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0UFSndF004741 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:28:50 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1CvH05-0007ED-Ol for caml-list@inria.fr; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:28:33 +0100 Received: from 67.71.119.232 ([67.71.119.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:28:33 +0100 Received: from monnier by 67.71.119.232 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:28:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Stefan Monnier Subject: Re: [Caml-list] binary compatibility of 3.08.3 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:28:32 -0500 Message-ID: <87acqrymh6.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> References: <99C2C114-6583-11D9-B72B-000D9345235C@inria.fr> <20050113184137.GA24040@fistandantilus.takhisis.org> <20050113.150239.95895778.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <20050127.164050.17018072.debian00@tiscali.be> <20050130061126.GA32348@pegasos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.119.232 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hwJsB/Qx3mxu7r7DGxkxFk2R/iI= Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean Cc: debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org X-MailScanner-From: gclci-caml-list@m.gmane.org X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41FCFD32.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41FCFD31.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; umontreal:01 caml-list:01 binary:01 libdir:01 autobuilders:01 problem:05 solve:10 somehow:11 though:11 virtual:11 but:12 hoped:13 instead:13 package:14 using:15 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: > Sure, and that is what we will have to do. This is a lengthy process though, > and we had hoped to avoid this. This means not only changing the LIBDIR name, > but also changing the virtual versioned package from ocaml-3.08 to > ocaml-3.08.3, which our autobuilders still have trouble with. Somehow I can't understand why someone would go through so much trouble when using the name "3.09" instead of "3.08.3" would solve the problem much more cheaply. Stefan