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 VAA14979; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:28:24 +0100 (MET) 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 VAA15209 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:28:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from mallaury.noc.nerim.net (smtp-102.noc.nerim.net [62.4.17.102]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1OKSNT11524 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:28:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from hector.lesours (lesours.starynkevitch.net [80.65.224.217]) by mallaury.noc.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFC262E11 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:28:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from basile by hector.lesours with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18nPD4-0006zC-00 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:28:22 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <15962.32870.513278.641593@hector.lesours> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:28:22 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Alternative proposal: COAN In-Reply-To: <02103BF1-4835-11D7-B97A-000A95773ED2@rouaix.org> References: <14397.1046105688@saul.cis.upenn.edu> <02103BF1-4835-11D7-B97A-000A95773ED2@rouaix.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.08 under Emacs 21.2.2 From: Basile STARYNKEVITCH Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Francois" == Francois Rouaix writes: Francois> I think that Benjamin has an excellent point here. As Francois> much as I curse CPAN on a regular basis (e.g. for Francois> forcing 5.8.0 on me), I wouldn't even touch Perl or Perl Francois> based apps if it wasn't for CPAN and the easiness that Francois> it brings for the installation of apps and libraries Francois> that have non-trivial requirements. Francois> I'd say that the discussions on licences are a waste of Francois> time; [...] Agreed. But some licenses are better than others... (and some core libraries could have a dual-license if so needed). Francois> What could be done is exactly what Benjamin suggests. To Francois> some extent, the hump has a few of these Francois> functonalities. I'd push for "standard installation Francois> procedures" as being part of the minimum. [...] Regarding installation procedures, I wish that ocamlfind (ie findlib) becomes part of standard Ocaml. Or otherwise, so similar tools. I also wish that the standard Ocaml distribution provides the ability to query the actual installation option, in particular: does Ocaml has been compiled with pthread support (etc..)? Regards. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basilestarynkevitchnet alias: basiletunesorg 8, rue de la Faïencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France ------------------- 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