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 UAA31970; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:05:12 +0100 (MET) 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 UAA32163 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:05:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay1.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g22J59922947 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:05:10 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 31410 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2002 19:05:07 -0000 Received: from adsl-host-sf-228.apexworld.net (HELO checkerlap.d6.com) (66.114.212.228) by relay1.pair.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2002 19:05:07 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 66.114.212.228 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020302104149.032b3340@mail.d6.com> X-Sender: checker@mail.d6.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 11:00:31 -0800 To: Alain Frisch , Mattias Waldau From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The DLL-hell of O'Caml Cc: Caml list In-Reply-To: References: <014901c1c1bf$ebb29c30$0700a8c0@gateway> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I think a CPAN-like-thing would be excellent and is sorely needed! I'm super busy right now (who isn't?), but I'd be willing to commit some time to testing it at the least, and maybe contributing code after May. I've used CPAN a little bit, but we should do a survey of other archive managers and learn from what works and what doesn't. Maybe there's a web page somewhere. There's also apt-get from Debian and the Redhat one to look at. I wonder if we could just use one of the existing managers...although it seems like it should be written in caml for karmic reasons, at least. :) >> In the Ocaml-CPAN it could either be source code, or > > compile binaries (I can live without native code, at > > least when experimenting with other peoples libraries.) Why wouldn't it be source-only? So people don't have to have the compiler installed? It seems that there are two related but different projects: an archive/package manager for developers, and one for users. Maybe those can be the same thing, at least for bytecode. But maybe the intermediate rep idea would work for native as well. Or some server that builds all the supported platforms or something. Chris ------------------- 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