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 PAA18888; Mon, 24 May 2004 15:54:46 +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 PAA18897 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 15:54:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4ODsfSH030338 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 15:54:43 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp114-11.lns1.syd3.internode.on.net [150.101.114.11]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4ODsYZq066359; Mon, 24 May 2004 23:24:36 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Large projects in OCaml From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: Jacques GARRIGUE Cc: jdh30@cam.ac.uk, caml-list In-Reply-To: <20040524.211426.68536843.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> References: <200405211228.34673.jdh30@cam.ac.uk> <20040524.120703.46614549.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <1085376050.6065.230.camel@pelican.wigram> <20040524.211426.68536843.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1085406873.6065.272.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 24 May 2004 23:54:34 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40B1FEA1.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 jacques:01 sourceforge:01 nda:99 developpers:01 end-users:99 9660:01 glebe:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 garrigue:01 executables:01 nsw:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:14, Jacques GARRIGUE wrote: > From: skaller > > > Honestly, what is so bad about providing the source under a NDA? > > > > The main problem is that it means the client needs > > a full scale development environment. > This was about selling libraries to developpers. > If you're buying an ocaml library, then I hope you've got an ocaml > development environment, otherwise I do not see what you could do with > it. Sure, but most developers have end users .. > I think that everybody agrees that a great strength of ocaml is its > ability to easily build standalone executables. It can do that, yes .. > This is what matters to end users. What matters to end-users is shared libraries which Ocaml can't build at all. The real world out there demands *components* they can plug together. -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- 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