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From: Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml programmers interested in human-level AI

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote:
> What if we just used something like C++'s CMake (MPC, if you are
> unfamiliar), that will just *generate* the appropriate build scripts for
> whatever build tools you want? This would solve the windows problem and
> work with any other tools.

Small correction:

> the windows problem

It's the "MSVC problem". And CMake doesn't try to do things for anything
else. Actually it downgrades other platforms down to its lowest common
build system denominator: MSVC on Windows with a closed development
model and no maintenance.

-- 
Adrien Nader