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From: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: custom copies of libraries (was Re: [Caml-list] OCaml Labs)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:47:55 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5085F74B.2050908@riken.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALdQWQ46M2hUtsscNueW0BD99pLnYJ2JwbrPFTROg1dJQgQEbg@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/21/2012 08:45 PM, Yoriyuki Yamagata wrote:
> 2012/10/21 Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>:
>> avoiding custom copies of libraries that are published independently,
>
> Completely off-topic, but is making custom copies so bad thing?  I
> incline to include third-party's libraries into my libraries unless
> the library is too big, so that the my libraries are compiled with
> libraries whose behaviors are tested and guaranteed.

Plus, when you do this, your software can be compiled and run right 
after checkout.

> If we have a good package management system, things would be a bit
> different, but still a package management system guarantees only, say,
> that the version numbers of libraries are higher than XXXX, which does
> not preclude many problems.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-21 11:45 Yoriyuki Yamagata
2012-10-21 13:01 ` Adrien
2012-10-21 15:24 ` Ralf Treinen
2012-10-23  1:47 ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2012-10-28  9:03 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-10-28 11:13   ` Yoriyuki Yamagata

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