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 SAA15178; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:40:32 +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 SAA16131 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:40:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (mailfarm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3GGeTYM006636 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:40:30 +0200 Received: from [64.162.212.212] (HELO tallman.kefka.frap.net) by calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with SMTP id 17553248; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:40:29 -0700 Received: by tallman.kefka.frap.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:39:34 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:39:34 -0700 From: Kenneth Knowles To: Richard Jones Cc: caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] build tools - good vs. fast, both cheap Message-ID: <20040416163934.GA27341@tallman.kefka.frap.net> References: <1082126288.20063.69.camel@pelican.wigram> <20040416151656.GA27923@redhat.com> <20040416161218.GB27238@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <20040416161714.GD27200@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040416161714.GD27200@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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; knowles:99 caml-list:01 2004:99 2004:99 knowles:99 cpan:01 cpan:01 tarballs:01 defaulting:01 model:01 tweak:01 equivalents:01 internals:01 admittedly:01 findlib:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 05:17:14PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:12:18AM -0700, Kenneth Knowles wrote: > > > CPAN (the global repository) > > -> The Humps for the "place" / GODI's data files > > I'm pretty sure that GODI is *not* like CPAN, fundamentally because > CPAN actually stores the source tarballs. This is essential if you > want to set up a reliable distributed system which doesn't depend on > the vaguaries of uptimes of multiple small sites. Ah, I see. Gentoo does both - defaulting to your SRC_URI only if the Gentoo mirror downloads fail. This is just a matter of someone choosing to do the hosting, yes, and then very minor changes to GODI to check that location first, before going to the "multiple small sites"? Step 1: make sure the GODI maintainers are interested in this model Step 2: get hosting Step 3: tweak GODI None of which is my bag :-) > > > dh-make-perl and equivalents > > -> ?? > > Well, exactly. Quite vital though, particularly for people like me > who basically drive everything from Debian packages. I wholly agree. But I don't have the experience to do it (I've made exactly one RPM in my life, a few ebuilds, and no .debs). Even though I don't know the internals, I imagine it could be orthogonally accomplished. Or someone could send a patch to OcamlConf (or OCamlMakefile) enabling it to output debs :-) Admittedly, OCamlConf just has a list of sources and a list of "other files to copy into the findlib directory" and in order to make a nice package they'd have to be separated into data, docs, etc. Kenn ------------------- 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