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 BAA29884; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:57:25 +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 BAA30026 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:57:23 +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 i84NvNut024745 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:57:23 +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 951F5183B21; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:57:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <002301c492db$11b9aa10$19b0e152@warp> From: "Nicolas Cannasse" To: "chris.danx" Cc: "Jason Hickey" , References: <4139ECD3.1050708@cs.caltech.edu> <001e01c492a6$872c7280$19b0e152@warp> <413A0921.7030607@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:58:25 +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 413A5663.000 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 ocamake:01 motion-twin:01 ocamake:01 cannasse:01 semantics:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 nicolas:01 nicolas:01 gnat:01 handles:01 compilation:04 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > One question that springs to mind is why hasn't anyone made a tool that > does the build process based on the semantics of Ocaml? Or have they? > I used to (and sometimes still do) program in Ada using Gnat and most of > the compilation can be handled by tools like gnatmake which handles all > the dependancies. The Ada language has some specific rules on > compilation and recompilation. Perhaps this is the difference? Well I think OCamake is doing this : http://tech.motion-twin.com/ocamake and it works well on all platforms running OCaml. 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