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Bug#234740: ITP: libodbc-ocaml -- ODBC bindings for OCaml
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| John Goerzen 2004-02-25, 11:33 am |
| Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : libodbc-ocaml
Version : 2.7
Upstream Author : Maxence Guesdon <Maxence.Guesdon@inria.fr>
* URL : http://pauillac.inria.fr/~guesdon/T...lodbc/#download
* License : LGPL
Description : ODBC bindings for OCaml
Provides bindings for the UnixODBC system, allowing access to a wide
variety of relational databases from OCaml.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux erwin 2.4.25-pre5 #1 Thu Jan 15 18:34:29 CST 2004 alpha
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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| Stefano Zacchiroli 2004-02-25, 5:34 pm |
| On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:50:01AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> * Package name : libodbc-ocaml
Could you please X-Debbugs-Cc: ocaml related ITPs also to the
debian-ocaml-maint mailing list? Some people interested in packaging
ocaml related stuff for debian are not subscribed to debian-devel.
Regarding your ITP: I'm actually not connected and I can't check, but
IIRC upstream name is "ocamlodbc". Could you please use this name for
the source package name? Then, as suggested in the ocaml packaging
policy (/usr/share/doc/ocaml/ocaml_packaging_policy.gz), you should use
libodbc-ocaml name for dynamically loadable shared objects (if any) and
libodbc-ocaml-dev for the development part of the library.
Thanks for your effort in packaging ocamlodbc, I had a look at it a
while ago, but I've never had enough time/interest to package it.
Cheers.
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| John Goerzen 2004-02-25, 5:34 pm |
| On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:00:17PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:50:01AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
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> Could you please X-Debbugs-Cc: ocaml related ITPs also to the
> debian-ocaml-maint mailing list? Some people interested in packaging
> ocaml related stuff for debian are not subscribed to debian-devel.
OK.
> Regarding your ITP: I'm actually not connected and I can't check, but
> IIRC upstream name is "ocamlodbc". Could you please use this name for
> the source package name? Then, as suggested in the ocaml packaging
Yes, already planning to do that.
> policy (/usr/share/doc/ocaml/ocaml_packaging_policy.gz), you should use
> libodbc-ocaml name for dynamically loadable shared objects (if any) and
> libodbc-ocaml-dev for the development part of the library.
Thanks for the pointer. I have been trying to follow normal conventions
but it's a little unclear. This clarifies it a bit. But unixodbc is an
unusual case:
1. It does not support findlib
2. It provides a library
3. It provides a standalone GTK application, Biniki, that is a sort of
SQL monitor
4. It provides a standalone text-mode SQL monitor
I've got some preliminary packaging going. But OcamlODBC seems to be
somewhat limited in a few areas; I am going to look into packaging
Perl4Caml and the Caml DBI interface next.
-- John
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| Stefano Zacchiroli 2004-02-26, 10:33 am |
| On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:26:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. I have been trying to follow normal conventions
> but it's a little unclear. This clarifies it a bit. But unixodbc is an
> unusual case:
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> 1. It does not support findlib
It should, and it's so easy to add this support that I suggest you to
have a try. You just need to write the META file, you can look at
several examples in other ocaml libraries or directly in the findlib
documentation. If you still need help just ask on d-o-m
> 2. It provides a library
What do you mean exactly? Do ocamlodbc provides both a set of shared
objects and a development library or just a development library?
> 3. It provides a standalone GTK application, Biniki, that is a sort of
> SQL monitor
> 4. It provides a standalone text-mode SQL monitor
Applications shouldn't be packaged in lib* packages. You should split
additional packages for them: probably just a "biniki" package with both
applictions will be ok.
> I've got some preliminary packaging going. But OcamlODBC seems to be
> somewhat limited in a few areas; I am going to look into packaging
> Perl4Caml and the Caml DBI interface next.
Look at d-o-m archives, IIRC Perl4Caml upstream author has already
volunteered to package Perl4Caml by himself and has already built some
..debs. It will be great if you can have a look at the packages and
sponsor their upload.
Cheers.
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