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 KAA02595; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:09:28 +0100 (MET) 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 KAA31891 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:09:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rto7.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-7.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.26]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g2L99OX08977; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:09:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rta2.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.152) by mel-rto7.wanadoo.fr; 21 Mar 2002 10:09:22 +0100 Received: from warp (80.14.171.50) by mel-rta2.wanadoo.fr; 21 Mar 2002 10:09:03 +0100 Message-ID: <00aa01c1d0b7$e1227950$be00a8c0@warp> From: "Warp" To: "OCaml" Cc: References: <3C8C9FE1.2060904@gerd-stolpmann.de> <000d01c1c95b$866bc060$0b01a8c0@mit.edu> <20020312230047.M1173@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> <20020320222038.A3148@hg.cs.mu.oz.au> <3C98863F.6060208@gerd-stolpmann.de> <007601c1d00f$f3b81960$0c6fa8c0@invariant.se> <3C989156.6010906@gerd-stolpmann.de> <20020320213925.A25391@pauillac.inria.fr> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The DLL-hell of O'Caml Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:07:50 +0100 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 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > Conclusion for OCaml? Forget about binary compatibility, binary-only > distributions, versioning, and all that. All we need for OCaml > libraries is source distribution, a standardized re-building procedure, > and a place to record cross-library dependencies, so that everything > that needs to be recompiled when something changes can be recompiled > automatically. Something like a source RPM or Debian package, or a > BSD port. So, do we need to forget about any commercial usage of OCaml ? In fact, commercial usage needs real "closed-source" libraries where only bytecode files are distributed. Such libraries should be able to evolve , by adding new functions into the interface, and to be loaded with signature checking at run-time. Does the OCaml team don't plan at all to add such feature ? 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