On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 16:29:44 +0200, 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. > The problem is not with programs, because ocaml modules are statically linked in the programs using them. The potential problem would be when trying to build a program which uses both the Pervasives module, and an external module built with the vanilla pervasives.cmo. Your program would then import two conflicting pervasives modules, and the build would fail. I think that's not something we should do blindly in Debian.
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