From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA01125; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:41:18 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA22487 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:41:17 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i84HfHQw031117 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:41:17 +0200 Received: from warp (chateaudeau-4-82-225-176-25.fbx.proxad.net [82.225.176.25]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id A192B184083; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:41:16 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <001e01c492a6$872c7280$19b0e152@warp> From: "Nicolas Cannasse" To: "Jason Hickey" , References: <4139ECD3.1050708@cs.caltech.edu> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:42:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4139FE3D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; cannasse:01 warplayer:01 caml-list:01 cannasse:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 nicolas:01 nicolas:01 library:03 gnu:05 makefiles:05 makefiles:05 syntactic:07 site:91 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > OMake is a build system, similar to GNU make, but with many additional > features. The home site for OMake is http://omake.metaprl.org/ Interesting ! However, I can't help thinking that I don't write to learn yet another language for writing my Makefiles... Why not using directly OCaml for writing Makefiles and exposing all nice OMake features through a library ? You would benefit of a good tool for error checks which is the Ocaml compiler. Other way to ask the question : what features make the OMake language better than OCaml for writing Makefiles ? Or is it just syntactic sugar ? Regards, Nicolas Cannasse ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners