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 RAA03443; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:16:58 +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 RAA30708 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:16:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aomori.annexia.org (annexia.force9.co.uk [212.56.101.183]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3GFGuYM024314 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:16:56 +0200 Received: from rich by aomori.annexia.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEV5M-0007JU-00 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:16:56 +0100 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:16:56 +0100 Cc: caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] build tools - good vs. fast, both cheap Message-ID: <20040416151656.GA27923@redhat.com> References: <1082126288.20063.69.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1082126288.20063.69.camel@pelican.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 model:01 cpan:01 dependencies:01 compiles:01 cpan:01 equivalents:01 model:01 orthogonal:01 sourceforge:01 ltd:98 makefile:02 makefile:02 binary:02 arch:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Can I just jump in and say that there's already a model for this. ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Written in Perl, generates Makefiles from simple Perl input describing the package. To see a typical Makefile.PL (Perl input file) see [1] CPAN (the module) - Examples the Perl input files, finds dependencies, downloads them and compiles them. CPAN (the global repository) - A big semi-self-organizing place where all packages can be found. This is important because CPAN (above) needs CPAN (the global repository) to find packages. dh-make-perl and equivalents - Automagically takes Perl source modules and turns them into Debian binary packages. Well, it's not completely automatic, but I've heard reports that it is quite successful at producing a "first cut". Whether or not it's a good model, I leave you all to argue about, but it's certainly a working model. Certainly GODI is rather orthogonal to this, seemingly inspired more by the *BSD packaging system rather than anything from Perl. Rich. [1] http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/reefknot/Net-ICal/Makefile.PL?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.20 -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://www.j-london.com/ Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment MONOLITH is an advanced framework for writing web applications in C, easier than using Perl & Java, much faster and smaller, reusable widget-based arch, database-backed, discussion, chat, calendaring: http://www.annexia.org/freeware/monolith/ ------------------- 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