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From: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
Cc: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>,
	Pierre Weis <pierre.weis@inria.fr>,
	caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:42:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021015044203.GA1016@iliana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021014224457.GM1002@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de>

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:44:57AM +0200, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> - Authors usually cannot test source packages on lots of platforms. Problems
>   range from /bin/sh incompatibilities to the Unix/Windows nightmare. Especially
>   for the latter I really don't know how to cope with it, because porting
>   Makefiles and scripts to Windows is time-intensive, and as a Unix fan
>   I have the attitude "let the Windows users do it".

At least for the windows solution, i strongly think a binary
distribution mechanism is what is needed for the users and also would
save a lot of time and 'howto build' kind of questions on the mailing
lists. There is no reason not to do so, i am no windows expert, but
windows offer a stable set of libraries and other system component that
can be relied upon to install ocaml binary packages upon. This already
works for ocaml itself.

> These are not exoctic complications that are rarely found, they are normal.
> A reasonable source distribution format must deal with them, and there must
> be people willing to create such enhanced source packages. I don't say
> this is all impossible, but sure it is an ambitious project.

Yes, i also think so.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15  4:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14 16:42 Alain Frisch
2002-10-14 17:39 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-14 17:59   ` Alain Frisch
2002-10-14 18:16   ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-14 20:38     ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-14 21:07       ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-14 22:44         ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-10-15  4:42           ` Sven LUTHER [this message]
2002-10-15  4:53             ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-15  5:15               ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-15  5:25                 ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-15  5:41                   ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-15  6:34                     ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-15  5:02             ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-15  5:04               ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-15  5:08               ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-17 17:57           ` Gleb N. Semenov
2002-10-15 11:21         ` Sign the packages (was Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd)) Tim Freeman
2002-10-15 11:59           ` Sven Luther

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