From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@epfl.ch>
To: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Installation of libraries with ocamlbuild
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:02:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93C44656-2FF9-43C0-862B-80A9654BFEAA@epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175537470.7492.17.camel@rosella.wigram>
Le 2 avr. 07 à 20:11, skaller a écrit :
> The caml development team alone does not have the expertise
> to develop such a model in isolation: it requires a discussion
> and feedback from the wider community.
Maybe, maybe not. I find it very usefull they want to tackle this
problem, so I'd like to encourage them instead of dismissing the idea.
> It is also not viable on multi-user systems, where the admin
> installs Ocaml, but users install libraries.
Agreed. You'd need some kind of lookup PATH.
> I personally think the proper solution is actually SOURCE not binary.
> That is, you install sources .. never binaries. Ocamlbuild uses a
> nominated cache directory for the binaries, and rebuilds automatically
> any libraries required .. including when Ocaml itself is upgraded.
This could be the sketch an interesting solution.
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-02 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 10:37 Joel Reymont
2007-04-02 17:00 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
2007-04-02 17:22 ` skaller
2007-04-02 17:42 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-04-02 18:11 ` skaller
2007-04-02 19:02 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2007-04-03 3:11 ` skaller
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