--- /dev/null
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+ <sect id="versions">
+ <title>Version</title>
+ <para>
+ At any given time, the package <application>ocaml</application>
+ should represent the current stable upstream version of Ocam
+ revision 3.06.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This package provides a virtual package called &ocaml-pkg;.
+ This will help to track incompatible changes made within the
+ same version of Ocaml.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect>
+
+ <sect id="base">
+ <title>Base Package</title>
+ <para>
+ In order to have a minimal installation, a virtual package
+ <application>ocaml-base</application> exists. It enable to have
+ a bare minimum install of Ocaml library.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ As for <application>ocaml</application> this package provides
+ a virtual package &ocaml-base-pkg;. This will help to track
+ incompatible changes made within the same version of Ocaml.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect>
+
+ <sect id="files">
+ <title>File terminology for Ocaml packaging</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Ocaml is a complete language allowing to create :
+ <simplelist>
+ <listitem>bytecoded executable</listitem>
+ <listitem>bytecoded library ( *.cma )</listitem>
+ <listitem>native executable</listitem>
+ <listitem>native library ( *.cmxa )</listitem>
+ <listitem>shared library ( for C-binding ) ( dll*.so )</listitem>
+ <listitem>static library ( for C-binding ) ( lib*.a )</listitem>
+ <listitem>bytecoded object ( *.cmo )</listitem>
+ <listitem>native object ( *.cmx )</listitem>
+ <listitem>configuration file for handling library ( META )</listitem>
+ </simplelist>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ There is a convention considering that native executable should be
+ called <var>progname</var>.opt and bytecoded one
+ <var>progname</var>.byte. When packaging, only <var>progname</var> is
+ taken in account.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For easying library management, the Ocaml Task Force used the
+ <application>ocamlfind</application> library management scheme.
+ This scheme includes a file named <emph>META</emph> which holds
+ all the library possibility. This is the configuration file for
+ handling library ( see XXX ).
+ </para>
+ </sect>
+
+ <sect id="path">
+ <title>Library paths</title>
+ <para>
+ Ocaml will search library in two different location, referred to
+ as <var>local</var> which hold user installed library and as
+ <var>core</var> in which packaged modules stood.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ By default, ocaml will look for modules in this order :
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><var>local</var></term>
+ <listitem>
+ /usr/local/lib/ocaml/<var>ocaml_version</var>/
+ /usr/local/lib/ocaml/<var>ocaml_version</var>/
+ </listitem>
+ </sect>
+
+ <sect id="documentation">
+ <title>Documentation</title>
+ <para>
+ </para>
+ </sect>
--- /dev/null
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2002</year><year>2003</year>
+ <holder>Sven LUTHER, Stefano ZACCHIROLI and Sylvain LE GALL</holder>
+ <legalnotice>
+ <para>
+ This manual is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See
+ the GNU General Public License for more details.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
+ <tt>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</tt> in the Debian GNU/Linux
+ distribution or on the World Wide Web at
+ <url id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
+ name="The GNU Public Licence">.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can also obtain it by writing to the
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ </para>
+ </legalnotice>
+
"dtd/docbook-xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY ocaml-pkg "<application>ocaml-<var>upstream_version</var>-<var>package_compatibility</var></application>">
<!ENTITY ocaml-base-pkg "<application>ocaml-base-<var>upstream_version</var>-<var>package_compatibility</var></application>">
+<!ENTITY authors SYSTEM authors.xml>
+<!ENTITY legal SYSTEM legal.xml>
+<!ENTITY chapter-ocaml SYSTEM chapter-ocaml.xml>
+<!ENTITY chapter-liblocal SYSTEM chapter-liblocal.xml>
+<!ENTITY chapter-libbpack SYSTEM chapter-libpack.xml>
+<!ENTITY chapter-progpack SYSTEM chapter-progpack.xml>
+<!ENTITY appendix-transition SYSTEM appendix-transition.xml>
+<!ENTITY appendix-resources SYSTEM appendix-resources.xml>
]>
<article>
<articleinfo>
<title>Debian Ocaml Policy</title>
<subtitle>For Objective Caml version 3.06</subtitle>
<releaseinfo>Revision 0.1</releaseinfo>
- <author>
- <firstname>Sven</firstname>
- <sunrname>LUTHER</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>The Debian Project</orgname>
- <address><email>luther@lambda.u-strasbg.fr</email></address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
- <author>
- <firstname>Stefano</firstname>
- <sunrname>ZACCHIROLI</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>The Debian Project</orgname>
- <address><email>zack@cs.unibo.it</email></address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
- <author>
- <firstname>Sylvain</firstname>
- <sunrname>LE GALL</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <orgname>The NM Debian Project</orgname>
- <address><email>sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org</email></address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2003</year>
- <holder>Sven LUTHER, Stefano ZACCHIROLI and Sylvain LE GALL</holder>
- <legalnotice>
- <para>
- This manual is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
- 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- </para>
- <para>
- This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See
- the GNU General Public License for more details.
- </para>
- <para>
- A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
- <tt>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</tt> in the Debian GNU/Linux
- distribution or on the World Wide Web at
- <url id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
- name="The GNU Public Licence">.
- </para>
- <para>
- You can also obtain it by writing to the
- Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- </para>
- </legalnotice>
+ &authors;
+ &legal;
</articleinfo>
<chapter id="ocaml">
<title>Ocaml Packaging</title>
- <sect id="versions">
- <title>Version</title>
- <para>
- At any given time, the package <application>ocaml</application>
- should represent the current stable upstream version of Ocam
- revision 3.06.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This package provides a virtual package called &ocaml-pkg;.
- This will help to track incompatible changes made within the
- same version of Ocaml.
- </para>
-
- </sect>
-
- <sect id="base">
- <title>Base Package</title>
- <para>
- In order to have a minimal installation, a virtual package
- <application>ocaml-base</application> exists. It enable to have
- a bare minimum install of Ocaml library.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- As for <application>ocaml</application> this package provides
- a virtual package &ocaml-base-pkg;. This will help to track
- incompatible changes made within the same version of Ocaml.
- </para>
-
- </sect>
-
- <sect id="files">
- <title>File terminology for Ocaml packaging</title>
-
- <para>
- Ocaml is a complete language allowing to create :
- <simplelist>
- <listitem>bytecoded executable</listitem>
- <listitem>bytecoded library ( *.cma )</listitem>
- <listitem>native executable</listitem>
- <listitem>native library ( *.cmxa )</listitem>
- <listitem>shared library ( for C-binding ) ( dll*.so )</listitem>
- <listitem>static library ( for C-binding ) ( lib*.a )</listitem>
- <listitem>bytecoded object ( *.cmo )</listitem>
- <listitem>native object ( *.cmx )</listitem>
- <listitem>configuration file for handling library ( META )</listitem>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- There is a convention considering that native executable should be
- called <var>progname</var>.opt and bytecoded one
- <var>progname</var>.byte. When packaging, only <var>progname</var> is
- taken in account.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For easying library management, the Ocaml Task Force used the
- <application>ocamlfind</application> library management scheme.
- This scheme includes a file named <emph>META</emph> which holds
- all the library possibility. This is the configuration file for
- handling library ( see XXX ).
- </para>
- </sect>
-
- <sect id="path">
- <title>Library paths</title>
- <para>
- Ocaml will search library in two different location, referred to
- as <var>local</var> which hold user installed library and as
- <var>core</var> in which packaged modules stood.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- By default, ocaml will look for modules in this order :
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><var>local</var></term>
- <listitem>
- /usr/local/lib/ocaml/<var>ocaml_version</var>/
- /usr/local/lib/ocaml/<var>ocaml_version</var>/
- </listitem>
- </sect>
-
- <sect id="documentation">
- <title>Documentation</title>
- <para>
- </para>
- </sect>
+ &chapter-ocaml;
</chapter>
<chapter id="liblocal">
<title>Locally installed library</title>
-
- <sect id="liblocal-camlp4">
- <title>Camlp4 files</title>
- </sect>
+ &chapter-liblocal;
</chapter>
<chapter id="libpack">
<title>Packaged library</title>
-
- <sect id="libpack-camlp4">
- <title>Camlp4 files</title>
- </sect>
+ &chapter-libpack;
</chapter>
<chapter id="progpack">
<title>Packaged program</title>
+ &chapter-progpack;
</chapter>
<appendix id="transition">
<title>Managing version transition</title>
+ &appendix-transition;
</appendix>
<appendix id="resources">
<title>Debian Ocaml task force</title>
+ &appendix-resources;
</appendix>
-
+</article>