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 DAA01345; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 03:51:04 +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 DAA00915 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 03:51:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i891p2aw021375 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 03:51:03 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1C5E5W-000JrQ-Gi for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:51:02 +0000 From: Jon Harrop To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-compiling OCaml Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 02:46:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200408312349.35724.jon@jdh30.plus.com> <20040901180820.53596105.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <20040901180820.53596105.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409090246.55601.jon@jdh30.plus.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 413FB706.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 compiler:01 semantics:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 essentially:02 pointer:03 wrote:03 wrote:03 08,:03 anybody:03 stuff:05 third-party:05 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wednesday 01 September 2004 09:08, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Jon Harrop wrote: > > I am under the impression that French Copyright laws make this difficult. > > IIRC, there was a post by Xavier long ago... > > Anybody have a pointer to this? http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200403/msg00171.html Essentially, the libraries we use are intended for use by the compiler and not by us (hence Hashtbl's semantics). OCaml programmers are advised to write third-party libraries and not to try to get stuff adopted into the core OCaml distribution. Cheers, Jon. ------------------- 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