From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr, jhw@wetware.com
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] findlib and mac os x frameworks/bundles/applications
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:57:12 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200109281357.PAA0000014253@beaune.inria.fr> (raw)
>From: james woodyatt <jhwoodyatt@mac.com>
>I've come to the point where I better start caring about how I will go
>about deploying my software. My preferred development environment is
>Mac OS X, which already has a convention for deploying software
>applications, bundles and frameworks. I have no need (or burning
>desire) to deploy on any other platforms.
>On the other hand, I see Gerd Stolpmann's findlib tool, and I see this
>is a popular package management system for Ocaml software.
I would say these two distribution formats have very different
purposes. Apple's bundles and packages are most useful for easy
installation of stand-alone applications. findlib is for managing
libraries that are going to be used by programmers.
I think you should use an Apple-style package if you're distributing
an application targetting the end user (in which case ease of
installation is very important), and a findlib package if your product
is a library to be used by other programmers (in which case reading
the docs and typing a few command lines to a shell prompt is not a big
deal).
-- Damien
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2001-09-28 13:57 Damien Doligez [this message]
2001-09-28 18:31 ` james woodyatt
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