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 WAA19223; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:15:39 +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 WAA19388 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:15:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (fichte.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.156]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g81KFbD29273 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:15:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from markus@localhost) by fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id WAA11427; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:15:32 +0200 Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:15:32 +0200 From: Markus Mottl To: Mattias Waldau Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: What kind of industry do you mean? (Was: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry) Message-ID: <20020901201532.GA5274@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Mail-Followup-To: Mattias Waldau , caml-list@inria.fr References: <002601c25051$1c9cb400$890bfea9@mimbi> <000101c25198$77b64cf0$0a00a8c0@gateway> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000101c25198$77b64cf0$0a00a8c0@gateway> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sun, 01 Sep 2002, Mattias Waldau wrote: > However, most of people on this list use *nix and create extra libraries > for O'Caml on *nix. Most of these are useless for making commercial > sellable software, since if you produce commercial software, you have > to focus on what makes the software good and sellable, not learning > how to compile PCRE on windows (Sorry Markus, just an example :-). No need to feel sorry! I work in a place privileged enough that I can let Windows rot in benign neglect... ;-) In any case, the main issue of making PCRE work on Windows is the C-library, for which you need a C-compiler and linker. The OCaml-part should work out-of-the-box. It's therefore not so much a problem caused by INRIA but by Microsoft not shipping standard development tools with their operating systems. > So if you want O'Caml to be used by commercial developers creating > commercial software, make sure that your libraries work on windows. Well, even with those difficulties put in our way by Microsoft, people obviously manage to get around them. > Due to the above reasons I only use core Ocaml and pure > Ocaml-libraries. I develop under Linux, in order to be able to debug, > and create release on Windows. Unfortunately, not everbody has as much choice as we have... Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- 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