On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 23:12, Simon Legner <simon.legner@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:38:46 +0200, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
I'm curious as to why the dependency on findlib is undesirable.
I didn't mean that. It's just that ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib has the simplest build()-code. According to the KISS principle I'd favour that one, if and only if it provides the same functionality (e.g. the META files you mentioned).
Ah, I was unclear in my wording, this question was actually directed to the packager of ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib, more than to you. Nevertheless it's good to know that you aren't opposed to using findlib. Yes, the PKGBUILD in ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib is slightly simpler, but I don't think the one in ocaml-ocamlgraph is complex in any way. There are good reasons for the extra stuff in my PKGBUILD: - the patch is required in order to get findlib to install stuff in the correct place - it seems to be standard now to use both build() and package() for packages where build and install are separate steps - the longer lines for installing is again due to findlib I did compile it yesterday, and noticed that the META files are *not* built in ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib, so on that alone I would argue ocaml-ocamlgraph is the way to go.
I've added a dependency on lablgtk2 to ocaml-ocamlgraph, so now they match each other in dependencies. Personally I think a dependency on findlib is desirable so I think ocaml-ocamlgraph is the correctest one, but I'm open to any counter arguments.
I just wanted to find out the differences of files after building the three packages. But unfortunately none of them builds on my machine (x86_64) due to the following error: File "dgraph/dGraphViewer.ml", line 26, characters 0-11: Error: Unbound module Dgraph
Interesting and surprising, I just built both versions (with and without findlib) yesterday, both successfully. I'm building in a chroot, on x86_64, so I'm very perplexed by your difficulties. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe