Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2011, 09:27 -0800 schrieb Aleksey Nogin:
> On 14.12.2011 04:52, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> 
> > I don't think you will be able to convince everybody - at this point the
> > issue becomes political in some sense: Do we want to give up our Unix
> > habits just to support an OS we (often enough) do not like, and would
> > only cover to get more love from the world?
> > 
> > There could be an alternative: The "busybox approach". We could develop
> > a toolkit that covers all the Unix commands we need for the existing
> > build scripts. It would include easy things like cp, mv etc., but also a
> > classic "make" (medium difficulty, note that it could reuse the
> > godi_make code), and especially a POSIX shell. The latter is a bit of
> > work, but not too much. I'd guess the overall effort takes not more than
> > 1-2 weeks if done by somebody how knows the semantics of the tools very
> > well.
> > 
> > There are a number of advantages over Cygwin:
> >  - No danger of running into licensing problems
> >  - The Unix compatibility is only maintained for commands, but not on
> >    the system call level (eaiser to use, less surprises, fewer deps,...)
> >  - It would only be a small download, and easy to integrate into
> >    installers
> 
> Note that to a degree, OMake already provides the ability to do
> Unix-style things under Windows.

I know, and this makes me quite optimistic that it is not that hard to
develop standalone executables for the frequently used Unix utilities.

Gerd


> Aleksey
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