From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pBGCiPZ7003544 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:44:25 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtkAALw8605KfVK2kWdsb2JhbABEhQymPggiAQEBAQkLCwcUBCGBcgEBAQQSAg8VCAEbHAEBAwwGBQsNAgIFFgsCAgkDAgECARERAQUBDgENBg0BBwEBFQmHYJtfCosdSIJrhH8/iHECAQQLgSSJP4EWBJR2hU6BNIZ1PYN5 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,363,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="135730858" Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com ([74.125.82.182]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 16 Dec 2011 13:44:20 +0100 Received: by mail-we0-f182.google.com with SMTP id b13so722314wer.27 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:44:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PVR9wxxpBHvrgDjjr1MmDYgOlTu5sTgELM9Ed16oJ2I=; b=Sr22jh1xFoU4TFEJTB6H80PJSfhHJo4UiR2efLbX9v7iqGUjqbuk4cbbkASNnFbEAg 88AYUSHEmdCvozPHY+IgIgMp06b1Xblsci1QRA4kesmaZGp7+asqriZlJ1fCzgbNjQlj Tn1ebsiBUGXmb+5mxA/Syhbz3LlpGIDdeX264= Received: by 10.216.138.73 with SMTP id z51mr2981059wei.55.1324039460257; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:44:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.93.11.91] (sauternes.inria.fr. [128.93.11.91]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p2sm14375395wbh.22.2011.12.16.04.44.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:44:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EEB3D1E.6050208@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:44:14 +0100 From: Jonathan Protzenko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0a1) Gecko/20111216 Thunderbird/11.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alain Frisch CC: Aleksey Nogin , caml-list@inria.fr, Gerd Stolpmann References: <4EDE33A0.6070004@gmail.com> <1323760512.9833.9.camel@samsung> <4EE711FB.5020602@frisch.fr> <4EE83C26.7090108@frisch.fr> <1323867161.7750.27.camel@samsung> <4EE8DC93.1000806@metaprl.org> <1323884194.7750.58.camel@samsung> <4EEB3BF7.30401@frisch.fr> In-Reply-To: <4EEB3BF7.30401@frisch.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions On Fri 16 Dec 2011 01:39:19 PM CET, Alain Frisch wrote: > > A few points: > > 1. It would be useful to have a completely standalone binary > distribution of ocaml (with ocamlopt) under Windows. This can be > achieved either with little development efforts by extracting the > minimal needed subset of an mingw toolchain (an assembler, a linker, > some libraries and object files to link the main program); or with a > little bit more effort, by avoiding the need for an external toolchain > altogether. I insist: most users of OCaml under Windows won't need a C > compiler or Unix-like tools. I'm considering doing that with the next version of my ocaml installer, because this has been raised quite a few times on this list already. > > 2. Binary packages for OCaml libraries could be simple .zip files to > be extracted at a precise place (under the hierarchy created by the > OCaml binary installer itself); or maybe even Windows installers. If > installing a library only amounts to clicking on a link in a web page > and run the installer, it already makes the life of the casual user > much easier. We don't necessarily need a full-blown packaging system, > with dependency tracking, versioning, automatic download, etc. Sure. I've discussed including findlib in the installer for windows [1] so that people can easily install third-party libraries and have them recognized. Cheers, jonathan [1] https://github.com/protz/ocaml-installer/issues/4 > > > -- Alain >