From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6EB9BC37 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:32:36 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,331,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="32196463" Received: from aspirine.inria.fr (HELO [128.93.60.41]) ([128.93.60.41]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Sep 2009 11:32:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4AA0DEB4.6020307@glondu.net> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:32:36 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?U3TDqXBoYW5lIEdsb25kdQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Etchemaite Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries? References: <4A9FBF04.1060608@gmail.com> <20090904105505.055ec82e@attale.agematis.loc> In-Reply-To: <20090904105505.055ec82e@attale.agematis.loc> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 cheers:01 phane:98 steph:98 phane:98 caml-list:01 pierre:02 supported:02 maintainance:03 library:03 debian:04 nightmare:04 bits:05 install:05 installed:05 Pierre Etchemaite a écrit : >> I imagine there are a fair number of people who take parts bits and >> pieces out of the batteries sources and use those in their projects. > > I've seen this in too many OCaml projects indeed, and that approach > has its own problems too. Fixes and improvements do not flow from one > copy of the code to the other, codes eventually diverge and using the > "real" library becomes harder as time goes on... This is a maintainance > nightmare. [...] +1 > I think a broad availability (either installed by default or at least > *very* easy to install) on all supported platforms should be a > start. As I understand Batteries is getting there. I would say it's software distributions' goal (GODI, Debian, etc.). Cheers, -- Stéphane