Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Dbi in ocaml-lib again

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> > I've just had yet another problem related to Dbi being both in and out
> > of extlib.  Does anyone mind if I just remove it?  I honestly think
> > that having it in there causes more trouble than it's worth.
>
> It seems like no one has any strong opinions about this (or else I'm
> not getting list traffic ...)
>
> Another good reason to remove Dbi from extlib is that in 3.08.2 it's
> actually impossible to link a program natively with both extlib and
> ocamldbi, even if the signatures & MD5 hashes of the duplicated Dbi
> modules match.  You get this error:
>
> Files /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08/dbi/dbi.cmxa
> and /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08/extlib/extLib.cmxa both define a module named Dbi
>
> Rich.

Would you consider the following :  making your Dbi drivers implementations
dependent of ExtLib, and keep the Dbi module only in ExtLib ? If not, I
agree with Dbi removal there it's obviously a problem to have it in two
libraries.

Nicolas