From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id DAA32273; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 03:19:08 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA31996 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 03:19:07 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from wetware.com (wetware.wetware.com [199.108.16.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i851J6Fh031755 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 03:19:07 +0200 Received: from [208.177.152.17] (helo=[10.0.1.5]) by wetware.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1C3lgH-00070A-UE for caml-list@inria.fr; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:18:58 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <002301c492db$11b9aa10$19b0e152@warp> References: <4139ECD3.1050708@cs.caltech.edu> <001e01c492a6$872c7280$19b0e152@warp> <413A0921.7030607@ntlworld.com> <002301c492db$11b9aa10$19b0e152@warp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Message-Id: <90216F7A-FED9-11D8-837C-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: james woodyatt Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:18:58 -0700 To: The Caml Trade X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 413A698A.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; woodyatt:01 jhw:01 wetware:01 caml-list:01 commenting:01 gpl:01 non-gpl:01 cpan:01 perldoc:01 sourceforge:01 woodyatt:01 jhw:01 wetware:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk everyone=97 [I have a question for the community at the end of this message. If=20 you are interested in this general topic, then please consider=20 commenting on my question. Thanks.] OMake looks good, but it is GPL=97 which prevents me from using it until=20= it is a widely distributed and mature product. For developers=20 interested in a non-GPL (yet still open source) alternative to the=20 venerable Unix make(1) tool, I'd like to mention an old Perl project of=20= mine: Conjury. Conjury was written entirely in modular Perl, and one of its=20 interesting features is that the entire build system, including the=20 implementation of its construction tools, can be distributed within the=20= source code tree of the project which uses it. It depends only on a=20 stock installation of the Perl distribution. Here is the README for the latest version: = The rest of its documentation is bundled internally as Perldoc, and=20 there is no online repository for HTML pages for it. Sorry. It is=20 licensed under the 2-clause BSD license (like all of my code). And=20 while I haven't maintained it in several years, I have been considering=20= resurrecting it for use in my forthcoming OCaml Network Application=20 Environment (NAE), which I am building out on SF.Net now. (This is the=20= official project name on SourceForge for what I have previously called=20= my Pagoda project. There is already an unrelated Pagoda project on=20 SF.Net.) I looked at cons and gnatmake and jam and lots of other tools back in=20 1999 when I wrote Conjury, and I found them all wanting. I still need=20= to write decent support for the OCaml toolchain before Conjury would=20 work for me, but at the moment, it's looking like the best alternative=20= available for my purposes. Would there be interest in Perl Conjury as a separate project if it=20 supported the OCaml toolchain, or can I safely just bundle it inside=20 OCaml NAE and hide it from the user with a shell written in the Unix=20 make(1) language? Would anyone like to comment on that? Thanks. --=20 j h woodyatt markets are only free to the people who own them.= ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners