From: "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
To: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:06:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E47B7E.6050901@glondu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFanBFK6y=5+TLDU0oo_z3Ts-LO22m6PZjytQW415LqGO041g@mail.gmail.com>
Le 27/08/2015 10:17, Gabriel Scherer a écrit :
> Depending on external libraries used to be a problem when there was no
> consensus on OCaml packaging (no longer than a few years ago people
> where reluctant to even use ocamlfind). We now have a reasonable
> consensus on a packaging story, and installing third-party libraries
> has never been as easy as it is today -- except on Windows, meh.
> I think you should embrace the idea of depending on software outside
> the OCaml distribution.
Depending on a multitude of external libraries makes packaging more
difficult. I am talking about "system" packaging (deb, rpm...) here, not
OPAM. And "install OPAM first" is not a very satisfactory way of
installing some software written in OCaml in a stable environment.
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-31 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-27 2:52 Hongbo Zhang
2015-08-27 6:59 ` Christoph Höger
2015-08-27 7:18 ` Anthony Tavener
2015-08-27 8:17 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-08-27 10:35 ` Romain Bardou
2015-08-27 19:55 ` Martin DeMello
2015-08-27 20:10 ` Yotam Barnoy
2015-08-27 23:24 ` Drup
2015-08-28 13:23 ` Philippe Veber
2015-08-27 20:17 ` Raoul Duke
2015-08-27 23:10 ` Martin Jambon
[not found] ` <20150827174554.14858.6618@localhost>
2015-08-27 18:42 ` [Caml-list] Fwd: " Emmanuel Surleau
2015-08-27 21:17 ` [Caml-list] " Paolo Donadeo
2015-08-27 21:51 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-08-27 21:56 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-08-27 22:04 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-08-28 0:50 ` Hongbo Zhang
2015-08-31 16:06 ` Stéphane Glondu [this message]
2015-08-31 16:14 ` Francois Berenger
2015-08-31 16:44 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-08-31 18:04 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-08-31 17:26 ` Stéphane Glondu
2015-09-01 15:06 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2015-08-31 17:34 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-09-01 13:46 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-08-27 8:07 ` Sébastien Hinderer
2015-08-27 8:20 ` Daniil Baturin
2015-08-27 9:34 ` Edouard Evangelisti
2015-08-28 9:07 ` r.3
2015-08-27 8:12 ` Francois Berenger
2015-08-27 11:57 ` Drup
2015-08-27 14:17 ` Yaron Minsky
2015-08-27 16:00 ` Jesse Haber-Kucharsky
2015-08-28 0:33 ` Hongbo Zhang
2015-08-28 1:53 ` Daniel Bünzli
[not found] ` <20150828.140826.2157566405742612169.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>
2015-08-28 12:38 ` Thomas Braibant
2015-08-28 13:00 ` [Caml-list] opam license field (was Re: We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really) Daniel Bünzli
2015-08-28 13:06 ` David Sheets
2015-08-28 14:01 ` [Caml-list] We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really Oliver Bandel
2015-08-31 15:26 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-08-28 14:35 ` Alain Frisch
2015-08-29 19:02 ` David MENTRÉ
2015-08-31 12:37 ` Jon Harrop
2015-08-31 15:05 ` Emmanuel Surleau
2015-08-31 17:31 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-08-28 15:02 ` Simon Cruanes
2015-08-28 15:27 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-08-28 15:51 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-08-31 18:40 ` Ashish Agarwal
2016-03-27 20:54 ` Jon Harrop
2016-03-27 21:21 ` Simon Cruanes
2016-03-27 23:48 ` Yaron Minsky
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