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Reply-To: Oliver Bandel X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Sequence: 17143 Errors-to: caml-list-owner@inria.fr Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: caml-list-request@inria.fr X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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 -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list https://inbox.ocaml.org/caml-list Forum: https://discuss.ocaml.org/ Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs