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From: Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] standard regex package
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:11:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010823151135.B8952@caddr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01082400035105.02716@ice>; from info@gerd-stolpmann.de on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:49:50PM +0200

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:49:50PM +0200, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> Because these questions are difficult, findlib does not include versioned
> dependencies (but it includes versions as such, and dependencies as such). So
> it requires still an intelligent operator that helps finding the right versions.

One danger in developing such a system is that you'll wind up duplicating the
rather extensive functionality of existing package management systems.  RPM and
DEB both handle these kinds of dependencies and are fairly complex systems for
it.  CPAN has its shortcomings, but it also works suprisingly well most of the
time.  I think you should at least consider taking a "worse-is-better" approach
and build something that works and leave the delicate dependency management to
the distribution packagers.

-- 
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
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-23 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-22 18:53 [Caml-list] Str.string_match raising Invalid_argument "String.sub" in gc neale-caml
2001-08-22 19:18 ` Alain Frisch
2001-08-22 20:41   ` Neale Pickett
2001-08-23 10:21     ` Frank Atanassow
2001-08-23 16:06       ` Neale Pickett
2001-08-23 16:25         ` Alain Frisch
2001-08-23 18:14           ` Neale Pickett
2001-08-22 20:23 ` Markus Mottl
2001-08-22 20:31   ` Miles Egan
2001-08-22 20:52     ` Michael Leary
2001-08-23  5:36       ` Jeremy Fincher
2001-08-22 22:06     ` Nicolas George
2001-08-23  7:08       ` [Caml-list] PCRE as standard (Was: Str.string_match raising Invalid_argument...) Florian Hars
2001-08-23 17:31       ` [Caml-list] Str.string_match raising Invalid_argument "String.sub" in gc Brian Rogoff
2001-08-23 18:08         ` [Caml-list] standard regex package Miles Egan
2001-08-23 19:28           ` Brian Rogoff
2001-08-23 19:49             ` Miles Egan
2001-08-23 19:51             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-08-23 21:12               ` Brian Rogoff
2001-08-23 21:27               ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2001-08-23 21:49                 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-08-23 22:11                   ` Miles Egan [this message]
2001-08-23 23:55                     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-08-24  9:03                       ` Claudio Sacerdoti Coen
2001-08-24  9:26                       ` Sven
2001-08-27 15:46                         ` [Caml-list] Package dependencies [Was: standard regex package] Ian Zimmerman
2001-08-27 20:50                           ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-08-24  9:23                   ` [Caml-list] standard regex package Sven
2001-08-27 15:54                     ` Ian Zimmerman
2001-08-30  8:41                       ` Sven
2001-08-23 21:06             ` RE : " Lionel Fourquaux
2001-08-24  9:23               ` [Caml-list] dynamic loading and OS interface Xavier Leroy
2001-08-27 15:16             ` [Caml-list] standard regex package Ian Zimmerman
2001-08-27 15:35               ` Brian Rogoff
2001-08-24  9:13           ` Xavier Leroy
2001-08-24 10:16             ` Markus Mottl
2001-08-24 16:49             ` Miles Egan
     [not found]   ` <w533d6j1vxn.fsf@woozle.org>
     [not found]     ` <20010823112653.A7085@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at>
     [not found]       ` <w5366be7fd0.fsf_-_@woozle.org>
2001-08-23 20:01         ` [Caml-list] Re: [OFF-LIST] Str.string_match raising Invalid_argument "String.sub" in gc Markus Mottl
2001-08-23 20:31           ` Patrick M Doane
2001-08-24 18:46 [Caml-list] standard regex package Arturo Borquez

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