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 GAA15320; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:52:00 +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 GAA15267 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:51:59 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com ([62.211.4.243]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9F4pw511850 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:51:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477E527250; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:02:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3DABA167.5060204@baretta.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:02:31 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sven LUTHER Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CDK with Ocaml 3.06 (fwd) References: <20021014181602.GA2620@iliana> <200210142038.WAA05623@pauillac.inria.fr> <20021014210719.GA3682@iliana> <20021014224457.GM1002@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> <20021015044203.GA1016@iliana> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:44:57AM +0200, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > >>- Authors usually cannot test source packages on lots of platforms. Problems >> range from /bin/sh incompatibilities to the Unix/Windows nightmare. Especially >> for the latter I really don't know how to cope with it, because porting >> Makefiles and scripts to Windows is time-intensive, and as a Unix fan >> I have the attitude "let the Windows users do it". > > > At least for the windows solution, i strongly think a binary > distribution mechanism is what is needed for the users and also would > save a lot of time and 'howto build' kind of questions on the mailing > lists. There is no reason not to do so, i am no windows expert, but > windows offer a stable set of libraries and other system component that > can be relied upon to install ocaml binary packages upon. This already > works for ocaml itself. > Very true, but I have a feeling most users/developers are on 'nixes and don't really give a dime about Windows. I expect most people to be willing to release their working sources--working on their flavor of unix--but not to work on creating a Windows distro, be it source or binary. I also don't expect anyone, say, of the Debian folks, to pick up the Windows-port crusage single-handedly. Let's just say this is a pretty nasty topic. I have a feeling that the only solution would be to have an official O'Caml IDE à la DevStudio--eeek!--capable of handling compilation and packaging in just the right way wherever it's used, without resorting to such unix tools as /bin/sh, configure, make and whatnot, but this would fit better in a commercial project than in an open source project. The other solution is to start using Windows installation discs for what there best at: saving your tablecloth from beer stains... Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners