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 TAA10204; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:30:47 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 TAA10058 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:30:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h1OIUjH18158 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:30:45 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 66759 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 18:30:43 -0000 Received: from arda.pair.com (HELO compaqreview.d6.com) (209.68.1.133) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2003 18:30:43 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.1.133 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030224102001.043145a0@localhost> X-Sender: checker@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:24:13 -0800 To: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu, caml-list@inria.fr From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Alternative proposal: COAN In-Reply-To: <14397.1046105688@saul.cis.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >The single thing that I think would make the biggest difference for the >OCaml community is a central repository for OCaml source code -- >something analogous to the CPAN archive for PERL modules. I'm aware of >all the thorny problems involved in really doing something like this >"right" for OCaml, but frankly I'd rather have something simple and >useful, now, than the right thing, someday. I think this is true, and was my motivation for "voting" for the SF project to be created. I figured once we got the SF thing going, we could turn it into a kinda cheapo version of this. We mirror a bunch of library code from other open source caml projects in the tree, in some pseudo-standard layout. Somebody writes a really simple xml schema describing what's up there and the dependencies. Somebody writes a really simple thing to parse that and suck down the latest version (either from cvs or by talking to the cvsweb client) from the command line, like apt-get or ActivePerl's ppm, and attempt to install it. It would be lame, but it would work for simple stuff. I think getting something/anything started will be a step in that direction. 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