On Tue, 28 Sept 2021 at 08:20, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 02:06:58PM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > OCaml library code can in principle be dynamically linked, eg: > > > > > > $ rpm -ql ocaml-extlib | grep cmxs > > > /usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/extLib.cmxs > > > $ file /usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/extLib.cmxs > > > /usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/extLib.cmxs: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, > > > version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, > > > BuildID[sha1]=5647dd0137ce0a5302c8040301b26a109d771948, with debug_info, > > > not stripped > > > > > > but upstream doesn't make it possible to ship OCaml binaries this way, > > > (they would still require rebuilding on every library update) and so > > > we only ship the DLLs not fully dynamically linked OCaml binaries > > > (except for the C code). > > > > Ah? > > > > So what sits in the main packages of libraries (e.g., in ocaml-facile as > > opposed to ocaml-facile-devel) then? Don't only shared libraries belong in > > the main package? > > The original split of ocaml-FOO / ocaml-FOO-devel doesn't make a lot > of sense these days. Ideally we'd put them all in one package. > > > So I take back my comment that the OCaml stack is properly packaged. ;-) > > That sounds like almost as much of a mess as Go and Rust then. > > I'd hardly say OCaml packging is a mess. It's much closer to the > spirit of C packaging than those others. If you have *specific, > actionable* objections I will listen to them. > >
I think Kevin's comment is meant more towards the way the language packages itself versus the rpm packaging of the language. Going from Kevin's comments on languages over the years, a 'good' language should not require such sort of rebuilding. -- Stephen J Smoogen. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Flame wars in sci.astro.orion. I have seen SPAM filters overload because of Godwin's Law. All those moments will be lost in time... like posts on a BBS... time to shutdown -h now. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
