Re: [Caml-list] standard regex package

[Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:28:49PM -0700, Brian Rogoff wrote:
> The other stuff can come later. I think Markus has a very good point about 
> some distutils (Python) like facility being even more important. Once such
> a framework is in place we can have an OCaml CPAN. Last time I looked findlib 
> ran only on Unix, which is a big problem. 

I agree that a CPAN equivalent is more pressing, but I don't think regex should
be an add-on.  It's too fundamental, at least to the people coming from
'scripting' languages.

> > While were on the subject of beginner usability, it seems to me that if dynamic
> > loading of c-libraries is still a ways off, it might be nice to build the unix
> > module into the toplevel at install time.
> 
> A better apporach might be to ape Python and the SML Basis Library by providing a 
> generic "OS" module which abstracts at least Unix/Win/Mac away. I would
> prefer this, since I feel silly using Unix.<blah> on a Windows box :-).

Yeah, "Unix" seems like a bit of an anachronism.

-- 
miles

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