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 LAA18854; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:47:35 +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 LAA18743 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:47:34 +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 g949lX503850; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:47:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA18805; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:47:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: Pierre Weis Message-Id: <200210040947.LAA18805@pauillac.inria.fr> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] HTMLC In-Reply-To: <20021004090026.GA3384@cs.unibo.it> from Stefano Zacchiroli at "Oct 4, 102 11:00:26 am" To: zack@cs.unibo.it (Stefano Zacchiroli) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:47:33 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:45:49PM +0200, Pierre Weis wrote: > > Htmlc is still evolving from its initial status of SSI static resolver > > to the plain HTML page compiler we are all dreaming of. So, please, > > don't hesitate to send your constructive remarks and contributions ! > > I am a long time user of html compilers, my home page is fully static > html compiled using WML from a bounce of source files; I've also ever > used a structure like the one proposed in the HTMLC page (SRC and WEB > dirs, ...). > > I was wondering about which are the aims of the HTMLC project, do you > plan to became a server side tool or not? No, if I have to do it. Yes, if people want it and implement it. > Currently a tool like HTML is only 'yet another html compiler' like many > others which currently support inclusion and a few other options, ok > it's fun because it's written in OCaml, but what does it add to the HTML > compiler niche? A fast, clean, simple, reliable, extensible, law memory footprints HTML compiler written in a high level language, that you can easily extend using the high level language. > A worth mentioning direction to take can be a WML like one but using > ocaml as an embedded language instead of perl, but this probably can > collide with other projects like ocamlweb or similar if you plan to move > to the SSI side. I made the minimum that fullfilled my needs. If others want to use it, I'm please to share it with them. If they want to extend it, I would be glad to incoporate their extensions if they want to share them with me. No big plans, no big deal, just a proposition to try something I considered useful to use and would continue to develop if there are volunteers by there. > Just some free thougths ... > > Please consider this mail as a simple roadmap question, I really > appreciated your work, thanks. Moreover many html compiler projects died > years ago and aren't currently actively mainted (like WML), so a young > and well maintained projects can helps here. > > Cheers. > > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy > zack@cs.unibo.it | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro > "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not > sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney > ------------------- Thank you for your appreciation. This project is new but htmlc was used for a long time to generate pages for the Caml web site. May be HTMLC announce was a bit modest too, I don't know. I really would like to share ideas and code with other programmers on the subject of HTML pages generation using Caml. It is a practical issue: I had so many problems with SSI that I moved to the side of statically checked source pages (and HTML compilers). Best regards, Pierre Weis INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/ ------------------- 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