From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: weis Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id AAA18859 for caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 00:30:27 +0100 (MET) Resent-Message-Id: <200002172330.AAA18859@pauillac.inria.fr> Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA07861 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:09:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from p-biset.issy.cnet.fr (p-biset.issy.cnet.fr [139.100.0.33]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA00955 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:09:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from l-mhs1.lannion.cnet.fr ([161.104.1.59]) by p-biset.issy.cnet.fr with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id 1091GZV2; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:10:54 +0100 Received: from lsun169.cnet (lsun169.lannion.cnet.fr [161.104.4.4]) by l-mhs1.lannion.cnet.fr with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id 1AV2DLS5; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:08:55 +0100 Received: from lsun565.lannion.cnet.fr (lsun565 [161.104.10.182]) by lsun169.cnet (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA19105; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:09:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsun565.cnet by lsun565.lannion.cnet.fr (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA25870; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:09:15 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:09:15 +0100 Message-Id: <200002161309.OAA25870@lsun565.lannion.cnet.fr> From: Jean-Francois Monin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: Claude Marche CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Portability of applications written in OCAML In-Reply-To: <14505.19990.196972.627775@sun-demons> References: <14505.19990.196972.627775@sun-demons> X-Mailer: VM 6.37 under Emacs 20.2.1 Resent-From: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Resent-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 00:30:27 +0100 Resent-To: caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr > Mon but est de pouvoir distribuer le plus largement possible une > application écrite en Ocaml, en évitant des remarques du genre «cette > application m'intéresse mais je ne peux pas compiler le Ocaml et vous > ne fournissez pas un binaire adapté à ma configuration» Tiens, cela arrive qu'on ne puisse pas compiler les sources de Ocaml ? Peut-être sur une config très exotique ? De plus on trouve facilement des .deb et .rpm tout prêts (sans compter les binaires pour Wxx), ce qui assure, me semble-t-il, une bonne couverture actuellement. > My goal is be able to distribute as widely as possible an application > written in Ocaml, avoiding remarks like ``I'm interested in this > application but I cannot compile Ocaml sources, and you do not offer > a suitable binary for my configuration'', I didn't imagine that Ocaml compiling sources could be difficult excepted, may be, on exotic architectures. Then why care ? Jean-Francois