From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C3ABC69 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:58:48 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAKTz+UbAXQImk2dsb2JhbACOMAEBAQEHCgcg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,301,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="1814748" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 26 Sep 2007 14:58:48 +0200 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8QCwlLi015934 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:58:48 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAKTz+UbLENaMnmdsb2JhbACOMAEBAQEHBAYFChg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,301,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="3279494" Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.140]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 26 Sep 2007 14:58:46 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAFPx+UZ5LHvc/2dsb2JhbAAM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,301,1186324200"; d="scan'208";a="198061266" Received: from ppp121-44-123-220.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.123.220]) by ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 26 Sep 2007 22:28:39 +0930 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Cherry-picking modules (was Re: [ANN] OCaml Reins 0.1 - Persistent Data Structure Library) From: skaller To: Sylvain Le Gall Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: References: <46F95938.7030107@cs.umd.edu> <17487E59-04F2-4509-87B5-24377B051E9E@epfl.ch> <46F961E5.5060302@cs.umd.edu> <55A4E82E-3D05-4F79-A8A6-A87905EB4FC8@epfl.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:58:38 +1000 Message-Id: <1190811518.6022.12.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 46FA5787.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 buenzli:01 distro:01 2007,:98 ubuntu:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 incompatible:01 caml-list:01 dependency:01 data:02 modules:02 epfl:02 philosophy:02 On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 10:26 +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > On 26-09-2007, Daniel Bünzli wrote: > OK, let me make myself clear, about the fact that embedding things is > the worst case. [] It's called a fork, I have around 5 of them in my package. I agree it is bad. > The only real needs is to have something that automatically > download/build/install dependency! > > AND WE HAVE IT: godi! Doesn't run on Windows. > Or if you want things more distro based: debian... Not used on Fedora, incompatible even with Ubuntu (which is Debian based) and is managed by a bunch of hard working people -- with an elitist management philosophy that prevents people contributing. I have a build system that works on all platforms. Why aren't you using it? Bad as it is, a fork is still the only viable option. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net