Re: [Caml-list] OCaml script on windows (was Re: [ANN] React 1.0.0)

["Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>]

Le samedi, 12 avril 2014 à 00:33, David Allsopp a écrit :

> Windows can't do anything with that. However, most people compiling OCaml packages on Windows expect to use bash (either from Cygwin or MSYS), where the scripts would run as on Unix. Are you sure that Windows compatibility is already a problem?

No, I just thought that you wouldn't get a shell on windows. So maybe you are right, nothing needs to be done, reports welcome.

That being said with an ocaml rewrite I'd abstract the thing a little bit more to make it more DRY (I deliberately prevented myself of doing that in sh: possible but guaranteed to become un-rereadable once you figured out the magic invocations)
  
> s long as you don't do anything exotic with command line parameters (quoting can be very weird for the Windows command processor, cmd, which is what Sys.command uses) then yes, Sys.command will be fine, and the same as on Unix.

Ok and ocamlbuild is ocamlbuild not ocamlbuild.exe ?

> In passing, it does have to be said that getting Windows support automatically from your build system is something that OASIS does...
At an unacceptable time cost, level of complexity and insulation from your build system… oasis maybe fine if you distribute a single package and have time to loose fighting with the system. It's not when you formally release a dozen of packages (and plan to release more).  

At the risk of repeating myself I need simple, reliable, efficient release and packaging workflows: right now if I need to perform a 5 min administrative task on each of my released packages that's already an hour of my time that is gone and I hate admin tasks. So it turns out that in *my* case, I'm very well served by opam .install files, ocamlbuild and a 100 loc, trivial, shell script [1] that I hope I'll be able to kill if we once get a good build system that has decent packaging support and handles .install file generation for me.

Best,

Daniel

[1] https://github.com/dbuenzli/pkgopkg/blob/master/pkg/pkg-builder