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 TAA01706; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:39:46 +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 TAA00993 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:39:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp2.libero.it (smtp2.libero.it [193.70.192.52]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9EHdiD06846 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:39:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dalamar.takhisis.org (62.98.121.65) by smtp2.libero.it (6.5.028) id 3DA310EC002A311C for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:39:41 +0200 Received: from lordsoth.takhisis.org (lordsoth.takhisis.org [192.168.1.119]) by dalamar.takhisis.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6) with ESMTP id g9EHdXeZ003490 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:39:33 +0200 Received: from lordsoth.takhisis.org (lordsoth.takhisis.org [192.168.1.119]) by lordsoth.takhisis.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6) with ESMTP id g9EHdW0X010670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:39:32 +0200 Received: (from zack@localhost) by lordsoth.takhisis.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6) id g9EHdWsc010668 for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:39:32 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:39:31 +0200 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: Caml list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd) Message-ID: <20021014173931.GD10510@cs.unibo.it> Mail-Followup-To: Caml list References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:42:56PM +0200, Alain Frisch wrote: > Of course findlib is useful ! But you can't do: > > ocamlfind fetch some_package > > to have findlib automatically download and install the last version of > some_package and its dependencies. I guess this is the kind of > fonctionality people mean when referring to a package manager. Ok, anyway this feature can be easily implemented in the findlib package, but a lot of new issues raise then. Mainly: 1) does we really need such a feature, aren't distribution born for such issues? (obviously I'm thinking about the Linux world here) 2) if we really need such a feature (for example just to have transparent access to packages between different linux distributions or between linux and windows and mac and ... worlds) who is responsible to keep an archive of available package gettable via ocamlfind or whatevere else? CPAN, APT, and other approaches work because someon set up an official or de-facto-official archive (Well, APT also support other repositories, but official one are the most used and trusted ...). 3) ocaml packages are usually distributed as source packages and we have not a standardized way to build and install them, the success of CPAN, APT, are due to the facts that _or_ the distribution is in binary form with standardadized file system sructure _or_ the distribution is in source form with standardized compilation and installation procedure 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 ------------------- 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