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 WAA00294; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:07:46 +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 WAA00282 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:07:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (jimbo96.zip.com.au [202.7.67.96]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f6QK7gv04286 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:07:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from maxtal.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA05109; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 06:07:24 +1000 Message-ID: <3B60787C.E3F7AC29@maxtal.com.au> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 06:07:24 +1000 From: John Max Skaller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Bandel CC: Ian Zimmerman , OCAML Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cdk References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > > Note that the cdk doesn't offer any new libraries; it is merely a > > compilation of existing libraries and tools in a single package, the > > kind that seems to make business folks happy. > > It makes OCaml-newbies (like me) happy too, because it's not so > easy to find a lot of libraries out there. > And why to reinvent the wheel? It makes me happy too, because I can use it in products I want to distribute, and people can download CDK and get ocaml and all the libraries in one hit. That's important, especially if it's only part of a larger toolset. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 New generation programming language Felix http://felix.sourceforge.net Literate Programming tool Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr