From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: weis Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA20396 for caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:13:26 +0100 (MET) Resent-Message-Id: <200002251713.SAA20396@pauillac.inria.fr> 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 RAA30727 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:57:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from ruby (kyle100.zip.com.au [61.8.17.228]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA06112; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:57:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from maxtal.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ruby (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA24870; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:58:42 +1100 Sender: root@ruby Message-ID: <38B6B4C2.D7FC4E42@maxtal.com.au> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:58:42 +1100 From: skaller Organization: Maxtal X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Schmitt CC: OCAML Subject: Re: Portability of applications written in OCAML: C stuff References: <200002231831.TAA11195@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> <38B49DBD.8DCBB87A@in.ot.com.au> <20000224150432.A9997@alan-schm1p.dns.microsoft.com> <38B5C3E7.FFFC0FCE@in.ot.com.au> <20000225083743.C11276@alan-schm1p.dns.microsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-From: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Resent-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:13:26 +0100 Resent-To: caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr Alan Schmitt wrote: > Now if you would be so kind as to explain what better solution you > have compared to makefiles, I'm all ears. See my previous email. I have no end of problems installing things (in general) as source. Ocaml is a pleasant exception, it is very easy to build. BTW: please think about configuration management and installation for a second: it is well known to be a nightmare on all systems. Specialists are employed by most companies with more than few boxes just to keep them running and maintain the software configuration. I think it's obvious on reflection that this is a really difficult problem, and there really has to be something a lot better than make and friends. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net