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 MAA22038; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:56:06 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA27320 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:56:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h77Au4f17304 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:56:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19kiR9-0001Wu-00; Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:56:03 +0200 Received: from [80.129.103.207] (helo=gate.gerd-stolpmann.de) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19kiR8-0003y2-00; Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:56:02 +0200 Received: from ice.gerd-stolpmann.de (ice.gerd-stolpmann.de [192.168.0.13]) by gate.gerd-stolpmann.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C849556EF; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:56:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ice.gerd-stolpmann.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 07141B039; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:55:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GODI, second version From: Gerd Stolpmann To: Jacques Garrigue Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20030806100552Z.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> References: <1060096092.4367.318.camel@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> <20030806100552Z.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1060253758.956.22.camel@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 07 Aug 2003 12:55:58 +0200 X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; gerd:01 stolpmann:01 caml-list:01 jacques:01 bootstrap:01 labltk:01 ocaml's:01 ocaml-core:01 dependencies:01 non-x:01 camlp:01 tkdefs:01 tklibs:01 incompatible:01 viktoriastr:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Am Mit, 2003-08-06 um 03.05 schrieb Jacques Garrigue: > From: Gerd Stolpmann > > there is now an improved version of GODI for download: > > > > http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/godi-bootstrap-20030805.tar.gz > > > > - The bootstrap script tries to pre-configure labltk. It looks into > > much more locations that the O'Caml configure script. I think this > > was one of the biggest problems in the first release. > > OK. Nice attempt, and properly splitting the work with ocaml's > configuration script. > By the way, I'm not sure this is a good idea to make labltk an > optional package, for two reasons: > - since it gets configured with ocaml, you have to recompile ocaml if > something goes wrong (your pre-search may help, but since you don't > check by explicitly linking this may still be wrong). > - it includes ocamlbrowser, which is an ocaml tool expected to be > there > > If your motivation is to allow binary packages including only part of > the stuff, then it might be a better idea to make ocaml a metapackage, > and have packages ocaml-core, ocaml-graphics, ocaml-labltk, > ocaml-camlp4 as dependencies. I am more thinking of server installations without X windows, so the split is X/non-X. camlp4 is part of the main ocaml package, there is really no need to have it separate. Maybe a solution of the configuration problem is to run the configure script again for labltk, but only to use the labltk-specific results (i.e. tkdefs, tklibs). This is more user-friendly than the current solution, and there is no danger to configure the various parts in an incompatible way. Meta packages: nice idea, but the question is what the users want to have. Maybe they are more interested in "distribution sets" for tasks, i.e. a graphics set, a web set, a database set, ... Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- 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