Re: [Caml-list] Core has landed

["Yaron Minsky" <yminsky@gmail.com>]

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Agreed.  We have a limited amount of energy to devote to a Windows port at
this time, but we would be happy for core to work well on Windows.  Most of
the library depends only on the version of OCaml, so it should be pretty
easy to port.  We've done a bit of ifdef work to make it a tad more portable
(it's known to compile so far on FC5, Centos/RHE 4 and 5, and OS X.)

y

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:

> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:02:30AM +0400, Dmitry Bely wrote:
> > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Yaron Minsky <yminsky@janestcapital.com>
> wrote:
> > > We are proud to announce the first public release of core, Jane
> > >  Street's own alternative to OCaml's standard library.  We use this
> > >  library as the base for our own development, and we hope people on
> the
> > >  outside will find some use for it as well.
> >
> > As usual, Windows is not supported?
>
> Jane St. seem to be using CentOS, if some comments in the source are
> correct.
>
> There's also lots of #ifdef __linux__ in the code and it's obvious
> there's a lot of Linux-specific work being done -- eg. bindings for
> non-standard Linux system calls.
>
> So there you go - it's open source, you can port it to Windows!
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones
> Red Hat
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