On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:13:14PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > > I don't think it would be a good idea to change the ocaml standard > > library in debian packages, because this would break compatibility with > > programs built with a vanilla standard library. > > No it would not. Programs built with the vanilla standard library > would still work. > > However, programs built with the debian library would not work with > the standard library. > > > This request has already been rejected by Xavier Leroy, one of the > > upstream developers, in Message-ID: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Julien, could you paste here the relevant parts of that rejection, or post a link to the ocaml mailing list archive, or better both ? > There are many Debian package which contain patches that have > been rejected by the upstream authors. Yep, but ocaml is not one of those :) Basically, early one i applied a thrid party patch (the one which allowed you to do ocamlc -i, which i found pretty neat), and it was totally broken in a subtle way, and i only noticed later when i got a very strange bug report about this, so, let's stay as close to possible to the upstream stuff. Now, the best way for sucha function would be to be added to some of the external libs, no ? Something like extlib maintained by stefano if i am not wrong. Or do you really need to be patched against ocaml ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
