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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: how could the community help with Oasis-DB; towards
 a CPAN for OCaml?

On 12/17/2011 06:27 PM, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
>> I tried to use Oasis on one of my projects. I got stuck at the very
>> begining. I am on MacOS, there is no binary installer, and no
>> instructions for MacOS users. It told me a bunch of dependencies were
>> unsatisfied when I tried to compile.
>
> Agreed. Installing the dependencies on osx is just too painful.
>
> But as I said before on this list, instead of providing binary
> installers, I think it would be much more productive for users and
> oasis devs to be able to bootstrap oasis provided with a raw ocaml
> install and a reasonably posix compliant unix system (let's pretend I
> didn't follow the discussion on ocaml for windows).

I also agree that a binary package is much less satisfactory anywhere 
with a compilation environment.

I'd love to get a report on how well odb can be used on mac.  Its second 
test of usefulness was being able to install oasis, which has a *ton* of 
deps.  It passed this test a long time ago, and should install oasis 
just fine.

If you have ocaml and findlib installed, odb should work for you.  Of 
course, let me know via its bugtracker or #ocaml on IRC if you have any 
problems.

E.