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 UAA02876; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:06:12 +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 UAA02966 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:06:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.23]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9EI69525040 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:06:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.79) by mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24D320043B004 for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:06:09 +0200 Received: from iliana (80.11.160.233) by mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24B4A00408F8C for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:06:09 +0200 Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1819l4-0000gi-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:16:02 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:16:02 +0200 To: Caml list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd) Message-ID: <20021014181602.GA2620@iliana> References: <20021014173931.GD10510@cs.unibo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021014173931.GD10510@cs.unibo.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Sven LUTHER Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:39:31PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > 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) Well, i guess the problem is essentially for the windows folk, and the solaris/linux user who are used to rebuilding their stuff themselves. Also suppor on rpm based distribs is not as mature as we have in debian, i think. > 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 ...). If this happens, maybe we can prevail on inria and the ocaml team to make disk space available to us ? > 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 Yes, this is the problematic part. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- 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