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 VAA09009; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:49:47 +0200 (MET DST) 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 VAA08918 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:49:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from www.invert.com (invert.com [209.164.21.15]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f7NJnjH04657 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:49:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from miles@localhost) by www.invert.com (8.10.1/8.10.1AA) id f7NJniv07340; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:49:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from miles) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:49:44 -0700 From: Miles Egan To: Brian Rogoff Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] standard regex package Message-ID: <20010823124944.A7208@caddr.com> References: <20010823110821.B5828@caddr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bpr@best.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:28:49PM -0700 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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. on a Windows box :-). Yeah, "Unix" seems like a bit of an anachronism. -- miles "We in the past evade X, where X is something which we believe to be a lion, through the act of running." - swiftrain@geocities.com ------------------- 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