From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q04FoqRN009919 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:50:52 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlgBAN1zBE/RVaC2kWdsb2JhbABDggWqWggiAQEBAQkLCwcUBCGBcgEBAQQSAiQIARscAgMMBgULDQkWDwkDAgECARERAQUBHBMIAQEQDodgmHAKi2WCbYRiP4hxAgULiGqDGgSIOIxMhU+BNYZ5PYQY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,456,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="125576447" Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com ([209.85.160.182]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 04 Jan 2012 16:50:46 +0100 Received: by ghrr16 with SMTP id r16so8302530ghr.27 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:50:45 -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:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=y512N59C3eNkFlEoPYHarD4LCM07+FDWPSwJHOhWqFg=; b=VYwEnAkjgwWSOklAfb3RZHydujg6ftsWvffblhPoeZAmkJN0Xl6oS3nzW4byeHozYZ 8NRmE23L1QouF7FfsRjnmbz1Vz12SYRAkUgH14tIKymuEVY+DtW4m/4HxeyXumIt5lg7 CUd2K1Dbx9AtjuKgRq/S8VT2p7nZCnkUTCpio= Received: by 10.101.92.12 with SMTP id u12mr22324985anl.7.1325692245383; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:50:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.65] (99-121-78-10.lightspeed.lnngmi.sbcglobal.net. [99.121.78.10]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 40sm89154921ano.19.2012.01.04.07.50.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:50:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F047550.8020101@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:50:40 -0500 From: Edgar Friendly User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "Let"-less syntax for coreML On 01/04/2012 08:30 AM, Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons wrote: > I think the biggest thing the community can do to improve OCaml is > not to tweak around with language design. It's to improve the > library packaging situation. > > Then just do it. I have, and the result is odb[1]. It backends with oasis-db[2], meaning if you upload your oasis package, it will be installable via odb, including deps. After finding out about barbra[3], a similar project with a different starting point, I stole many of their good ideas, and now have support for a local `packages` file that provides metadata for packages not available through oasis-db. This packages file allows installation of packages available from arbitrary URLs (anything curl-able), git, svn, cvs, hg, darcs, as well as local directories. For a large number of package examples (plus non-examples of packages that fail to auto-install through make/omake/oasis), look here: https://github.com/thelema/odb/blob/master/packages Contributions of additional packages welcome, fixes to the programs that don't auto-install (See the bottom half of the packages file) are doubly welcome. E. [1] https://github.com/thelema/odb [2] http://oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org/oasis-db.html and http://oasis.ocamlcore.org/dev/odb/ [3] still in stealth mode, maybe I shouldn't have stolen their thunder by mentioning them