[PPL-devel] Re: RFC: packaging the PPL for RedHat and Debian
Michael Tautschnig
michael.tautschnig at zt-consulting.com
Tue Mar 1 23:51:26 CET 2005
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>
> This package would have to depend on the availability of all 5 Prolog
> systems and, in perspective also of OCaml, Java, Mathematica, ...
> We need another idea.
>
Why does this interfaces-package depend on those systems - isn't it the
other way round (if one intends to use PPL)? But ...
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html
> http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html
>
> However, I am too busy at the moment to read them. I leave it to you
> Debian users (Michael and Matthew) to make an executive summary
> for us to follow. (One of the things I have read is that they
> recommend not packaging more than one shared library into a single
> package: another reason not to have a `ppl-interfaces' package.)
>
... that kills my idea anyway :-) I'll try to provide a summary as of
tomorrow morning - thanks for the links!
Till then,
Michael
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