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 HAA12583; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 07:08:15 +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 HAA12515 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 07:08:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mallaury.noc.nerim.net (mallaury.noc.nerim.net [62.4.17.82]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6558D916331 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 07:08:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alan-schm1p.inria.fr (aboukir-101-1-10-alanschmitt.adsl.nerim.net [62.212.98.49]) by mallaury.noc.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C73634FF; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 07:06:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by alan-schm1p.inria.fr (Postfix, from userid 501) id 576D64241; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 07:05:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 07:05:55 +0200 From: Alan Schmitt To: Dave Mason Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The CDK looks marvelous... but... Message-ID: <20020705050555.GZ5481@alan-schm1p> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Mason , caml-list@inria.fr References: <200207040017.g640H1p30536@sarg.ryerson.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207040017.g640H1p30536@sarg.ryerson.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Editor: Vim http://vim.sf.net/ X-Info: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~aschmitt/ X-Operating-System: Linux/2.4.18-6mdk (i686) X-Uptime: 6:54am up 1 day, 7:25, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.16, 0.16 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi, When we started writing the cdk, our first goal was to provide a big bunch of useful libraries and integrated makefiles, so that one could get them all from one place, and compile them all with one 'make'. Unfortunately, I'm afraid our approach does not work, for several reasons. First of all, many of the libraries included are developed by other persons, and we need to manually take their changes into the libraries included, which is a pain. Another problem is the one you describe: we provide a bundle that is not easy to cut in pieces. So I really think the packaging issues should be tackled differently, in a distributed way (it needs to be easy for developpers to integrate in their project). Packaging should take care of a few things: - make libraries easy to find - make libraries easy to compile and use (well known library repository, detection of installed libraries) - make recompiling easy (in my dream world, when I recompile ocaml, I'd like to be able to recompile all the libraries and apps that depend on it with one command). Best, Alan -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. ------------------- 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