[Caml-list] Build-/Installation-Tools - not enogh of them?

[Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>]

Hello,

a while ago it looked like there were not enough build- and installation-tools
for OCaml. I remember some discussions about that.

Now it seems to me that there are a lot of them.
So, developers can pick the one they know about.

For all these tools there might be good reasons to use them, and those
developers who looked at these tools and choose them for their projects, will
know them well enough.

The situation differs, if one wants to package the written software,
and one needs to know many of those tools, just to compile the stuff.
So, when one just wants to compile and install some software,
just for that, it would take much effort to learn the different build-tools.

So, packaging has become more complicated, even though for the developers
these tools may save time.

It would be nice if people who used one of the many new building tools
could provide a Makefile that allows just to type
"make" and "make install", instead of expecting everyone who wants to compile
the software to first learn just-another-build-tool.

Also it would be good, to mention early, which installation tools (make-dependencies)
are in use, and too mention needed packages (opam or others) to just build the stuff.

Thanks and regards,
  Oliver Bandel

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