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 LAA06564; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:08:30 +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 LAA07057 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:08:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3F98LD23773; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:08:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA21057; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:08:21 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:08:21 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy To: Nikolaj Bjorner Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml & XP, OCaml & CDK Message-ID: <20020415110820.A4799@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <200204080137.g381b1s07602@kodo.xdegrees.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200204080137.g381b1s07602@kodo.xdegrees.net>; from nikolaj@xdegrees.net on Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:37:01PM -0700 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi Nikolaj, > It was not clear to me which e-mail is the most appropriate for > the notes below, so I decided to let everyone share the joy. Thanks for sharing your experience, I'm sure some readers of this list will find it useful. > Installing OCaml on Windows and Setting environment [variables] I hope this mess will be fixed by the next release. The installer we use is unable to position environment variables automatically (like it should). I'm working on a registry-based hack to work around this. > camlopt > ------- > The link to the assembler from the README was out-dated (a number > of other links are broken from the ocaml sites). > Instead Google got me to masm32: http://www.movsd.com/masm.htm > A small 5.9 MB download, followed by install and the above PATH > exercise. I wasn't aware of this reimplementation of Microsoft's MASM. Good to know. Microsoft itself is distributing MASM freely now, but well hidden in various huge downloads... > ocamlmklib > ---------- > Is this missing under windows? > My Linux installation has it, my XP does not. In 3.04, ocamlmklib is available only for Unix, because that's where it was most needed (to hide differences in shared lib building across Unix platforms). I agree a Windows version would be nice, to help writing portable Unix/Windows makefiles. > The hump > -------- > caml.inria.fr seems down quite often, for example April 6'th. Our upstream provider experienced major network problems at the beginning of this month, culminating with a full-day outage on April 9th. Sorry about that. > Libraries > --------- > Several more features from the Hump > can be added to CDK, such that for example cryptokit > uses zlib from CDK and does not define it on its own. Yes, cryptokit could have used either zlib or camlzip to implement compression, but I'm wary of cross-library dependencies and wanted cryptokit to be usable on its own (with a stock OCaml installation). > Libraries that appear to be missing: > > - XML SOAP > - OpenSSL, OpenSSH interface or should we just re-implement ASN1 parsers, > Spki interface, RSA crypto, SSL 2.0, 3.0, and TLS? Sounds like fun :-) I agree it's more reasonable to bind to OpenSSL. François Rouaix tried that a long time ago, before OpenSSL was called OpenSSL, and at that time the documentation of that library was too incomplete. Things are probably better these days. > - SMTP > - Mime tools > - XML SAX > Are there any organized more extensive wish-lists for the CDK? I was wondering whether the HumpS should not include a "project proposals" section, just to give ideas to Caml developers that have too much free time on their hands :-) - Xavier Leroy ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners