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 KAA02551; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:14:29 +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 KAA21751 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:14:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail3.tpgi.com.au (mail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.59]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h6I8EOf26202 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:14:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (syd-ts18-2600-023.tpgi.com.au [203.58.21.23]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by mail3.tpgi.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6I8EDN18328; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:14:14 +1000 Message-ID: <3F17AC55.7050908@ozemail.com.au> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:14:13 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Jones CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CTAN/CPAN for Caml (COCAN ...?) References: <20030715180953.GA8821@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; ozemail:01 caml-list:01 cpan:01 model:01 inclined:01 toxteth:01 glebe:01 2037,:01 9660:01 0850:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 nsw:01 snail:02 wrote:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Richard Jones wrote: > I wonder if anyone is interested (or opposed) to creating a true > parallel with CPAN for OCaml code? It is pointless to consider this UNTIL there Ocaml team themselves decide on a packaging model. This means some way of, for example, having a heirarchical naming model without the top level having to be a file containing all the others. It means some way of finding package and components, and some way of installing them which doesn't require either clobbering the main distribution or adding a path component for every installed package. I'm sure the team is aware of these issues, there has been a lot of pressure to solve the problem. However thankfully they seem not inclined to give a premature solution: once there is a standard solution we'll all be stuck with it for a long time. -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- 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