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 WAA19108; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:03:08 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 WAA19114 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:03:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from www.invert.com (invert.com [209.164.21.15]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f5BK36v22761 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:03:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from miles@localhost) by www.invert.com (8.10.1/8.10.1AA) id f5BK33X63102; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:03:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from miles) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:03:03 -0700 From: Miles Egan To: Gerd Stolpmann Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlre: O'Caml Runtime Environment Message-ID: <20010611130303.A63015@caddr.com> References: <01060918494308.00523@ice> <20010611082154.A59230@caddr.com> <0106112116580B.00523@ice> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0106112116580B.00523@ice>; from gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:07:15PM +0200 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:07:15PM +0200, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > A fundamental problem of putting Pcre (and possible lots of other useful C > libraries) into the runtime environment is that the version of the library at > runtime must match the version that was installed at compile time. I fear we'll > have trouble with incompatible versions if we put too many additional libraries > into the distribution. Any ideas to prevent this? I think it's smart to be careful about these dependencies, but I think pcre ought to be an exception. It really helps to sell ocaml to the perl/python crowd. -- miles ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr