Re: [cothreads-discuss] Intention to create a debian package

[Zheng Li <zhe...@us...>]

Erik de Castro Lopo <mle...@me...> writes:
> Zheng Li wrote:
>> It would be nice to have coThreads into Debian. However, if you haven't got any
>> Debian packaging experience before, coThreads won't be a good candidate as the
>> first step.
> I work for a company that uses a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distro on our
> embedded machines. I have generated about 10 packages now, some with mixed 
> C and Ocaml, others which include kernel modules that must allow a version 
> of the package to be installed for each installed kernel package.
> So while I don't have much experience doing Debian packaging within the 
> Debian community I do have quite a bit of experience. I'm also already
> on the debian-ocaml-maint mailing list and I'm certainly not shy about 
> asking for advice.
> However, I'm not precious about this. I'll have a stab at this over the
> weekend. If I get stuck I'll be happy to pass it on to someone else.
Go ahead, good luck :)

A few points may help, coThreads make use of the following principles of OCaml:

 - Two physically different mli files will be compiled to identical cmi file,
   as far as they are structurally equal: the signature items and the order of
   these signature items are the same. 

 - It doesn't matter to link objects compiled against different copy of the
   identical cmi

Btw, to persuade ocamlc to believe that a.ml have a explicit interface file
a.mli, you must have both a.cmi and a.mli in current directory, just a.cmi
isn't enough.

HTH.

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Zheng Li
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~li