RE: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild on Windows and bash vs. cmd

["Soegtrop, Michael" <michael.soegtrop@intel.com>]

Dear Yaron,

> I hate licenses.

it is definitely a good source of income for lawyers, and I found it is worthwhile for a SW developer to take a 1 day course on the topic - it is a fairly surprising subject.

I would think it would be best to triple license it under Apache + a verbatim copy of the current Ocamllib license (LGPL 2.1 with link exception) + "the current or any past license of Ocamllib ". The latter would make it easier for the Ocamllib team to change their license later. If this helps, I could ask our in house license lawyers for advice.

But I have no idea if there are, besides the license issues, other reasons for not having common modules. One is likely the different base library, but in this specific case it shouldn't be much of an issue.


One technical note: I would implement in addition to processes defined by executables some simple built in standard processes, like cp, ln, cat, mkdir, tee (might be a combiner) and later maybe even sed, sort, wc, find. It doesn't help to have a portable shell environment, if you don't have portable core commands. Compiling "ln" for Windows is actually harder than compiling gcc or OCaml. Of cause it doesn't make sense to reimplement half of unix, but at least simple forms of those commands used in shell scripts every other line and which are just a few lines in OCaml would make sense.

Best regards,

Michael
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