Source: comparelib Section: ocaml Priority: extra Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers Uploaders: Hilko Bengen Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), ocaml-nox (>= 4.00.0), ocaml-findlib (>= 1.3.2), camlp4, camlp4-extra, libtype-conv-camlp4-dev (>= 109.28.00), ocamlbuild, dh-ocaml (>= 0.9~) Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/comparelib.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/comparelib.git Homepage: http://janestreet.github.io/ Package: libcompare-camlp4-dev Provides: libcompare-ocaml-dev, ${ocaml:Provides} Architecture: any Depends: ocaml-findlib, camlp4, ${ocaml:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: OCaml syntax extension for deriving "compare" functions automatically Pa_compare is a camlp4 syntax extension that derives comparison functions from type representations. . The scaffolded functions are usually much faster than OCaml's Pervasives.compare. Scaffolding functions also gives you more flexibilty by allowing you to override them for a specific type and more safety by making sure that you only compare comparable values.