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From: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml Labs
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:44:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5085F684.1090400@riken.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPzAKVAjaLzpEJUCDgqZe85TSy8zgOs593JUh_BToBofWss+uw@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/21/2012 08:38 AM, Paolo Donadeo wrote:
> Again, I want to stress that my message was not intended to be a
> superficial and uninformed critics to OPAM.
>
> [16 minutes later]
>
> I just watched Thomas's talk and I admit there are many very good
> ideas, OPAM is in my TODO list now :-)
>
>
>> There have been a number of (very
>> brave and good) pieces of this puzzle over the years (notably OASIS), but
>> OPAM aims to pull them all together into an integrated whole.
>
> This is a very high profile goal, I hoped OASIS was that "integrated
> whole" you are speaking about. My wish is to see a more connected and
> collaborative OCaml community, where the limitations of a "system" are
> solved by contribution, rather than writing another, possibly better,
> system. That's why I was scared by OPAM when I read Yaron's post.
>
> A question: can OPAM live in peace with odb.ml

If OPAM uses findlib, then odb.ml would be able to know what is already 
installed.

 > or GODI? In this moment
> my environment is built with GODI (for compiler and major libraries)
> and what is not present in GODI is installed with odb.ml, which
> installs everything in ~/.odb, no conflict with /opt/godi/... Can I
> say to OPAM to ignore a dependency, for example can I install an OPAM
> package which depends on Batteries, while Batteries installed with
> GODI?
>
>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-20  1:46 Yaron Minsky
2012-10-20 17:31 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-10-20 19:34   ` Adrien
2012-10-20 20:08   ` Markus Mottl
2012-10-20 21:10   ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2012-10-20 23:38     ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-10-21  5:42       ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-10-23  1:44       ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2012-10-21  8:03   ` Ralf Treinen
2012-10-22 10:56 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller

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