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 QAA22231; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:49:41 +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 QAA22364 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:49:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (chopin.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.170]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f85Encn11398; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:49:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from markus@localhost) by chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id QAA23094; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:49:35 +0200 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:49:35 +0200 From: Markus Mottl To: Patrick M Doane Cc: Daniel de Rauglaudre , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Camlp4 and CamlIDL in main distribution? Message-ID: <20010905164935.A22938@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> References: <20010905140610.V5393@verdot.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from patrick@watson.org on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:30:37 -0400 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Patrick M Doane wrote: > Caml will be for the better when these two tools are merged. I'd also say that having one distribution for OCaml and Camlp4 would lead to fewer hassles for developers. Everytime I upgrade OCaml, I have to upgrade Camlp4, too, because the byte code formats usually become incompatible. Nobody will feel hurt by the few extra bytes that Camlp4 adds to the distribution, even if users don't need it. The size of the distribution is really not an argument anymore considering that most internet traffic probably already consists of multi-megabyte MPEGs and videos, anyway. CamlIDL could then also be added. I'd say that both of these tools are so "standard" that they'd deserve a place in the main distribution. Finally, I'd only have to issue one command then when I want to upgrade to a new distribution... :-) Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- 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