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 OAA12983; Mon, 24 May 2004 14:15:08 +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 OAA12691 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 14:15:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4OCEuEV006865 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 14:14:57 +0200 Received: from localhost (suiren.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.25]) by kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.9.3p2-20030924/3.7W) with ESMTP id VAA27165; Mon, 24 May 2004 21:14:27 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:14:26 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20040524.211426.68536843.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net Cc: jdh30@cam.ac.uk, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Large projects in OCaml From: Jacques GARRIGUE In-Reply-To: <1085376050.6065.230.camel@pelican.wigram> References: <200405211228.34673.jdh30@cam.ac.uk> <20040524.120703.46614549.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <1085376050.6065.230.camel@pelican.wigram> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.64 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40B1E740.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 jacques:01 sourceforge:01 nda:99 developpers:01 jacques:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 garrigue:01 garrigue:01 executables:01 executable:03 library:03 standalone:05 kurims:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk From: skaller > > Honestly, what is so bad about providing the source under a NDA? > > The main problem is that it means the client needs > a full scale development environment. > > On Windows .. this is out of the question. > On my Linux box it is too for many applications -- > I simply don't have disk space left for sources. > One of my clients is running Linux .. on an XBox. > Other people are using hand-helds devices and > other small systems .. This was about selling libraries to developpers. If you're buying an ocaml library, then I hope you've got an ocaml development environment, otherwise I do not see what you could do with it. I think that everybody agrees that a great strength of ocaml is its ability to easily build standalone executables. This is what matters to end users. But to build the executable you are going to distribute, you need the sources. Jacques Garrigue ------------------- 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