From: Andrei Formiga <andrei.formiga@gmail.com>
To: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] oasis & macosx
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:10:53 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin2V8Jmq3SVp6GC5Us3NRZ8BW2UfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinOtf+c=Vdm_Th0bOFHypdZXV9+dQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Daniel Bünzli
<daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> wrote:
>
> There's something I really don't understand here. oasis and oasis-db
> are supposed to be able to manage ocaml packages. I don't wan't to
> install another package manager to install the package manager. I also
> don't understand why oasis needs findlib, since findlib manages
> packages, or does ocaml-db use findlib to manage the packages ?
>
> This is all rather confusing.
As Vincent said, OASIS is not a package manager. It is a tool to
generate portable packages. OASIS-DB is the package manager/database.
The thing is, a package generated by ocaml will build with only the
official OCaml tools as dependencies. However, to generate a package
you need to install OASIS and it has dependencies on other packages.
So package authors need OASIS, but package users don't. This is
probably why you thought OASIS itself could be installed just with the
standard OCaml tools.
After OASIS-DB is up and running, a user will be able to download and
install any OCaml package that was built with OASIS without needing
anything other than the OCaml distribution. But it is not done yet.
That's what I believe are the goals of and boundaries between the
projects, anyway. With OASIS-DB working, I think it'll be possible to
install OASIS itself just with the standard distribution.
--
[]s, Andrei Formiga
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-20 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-20 15:53 Daniel Bünzli
2011-04-20 15:55 ` Joel Reymont
2011-04-20 16:12 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-04-20 16:17 ` Joel Reymont
2011-04-20 16:25 ` Török Edwin
2011-04-20 23:38 ` Edgar Friendly
2011-04-20 16:25 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2011-04-20 16:36 ` Andrei Formiga
2011-04-20 16:58 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-04-20 17:10 ` Andrei Formiga [this message]
2011-04-21 5:58 ` ygrek
2011-04-21 6:00 ` ygrek
2011-04-21 8:55 ` [Caml-list] " Sylvain Le Gall
2011-04-21 16:42 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-04-21 17:02 ` dmitry grebeniuk
2011-05-19 9:29 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2011-05-30 11:04 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-05-30 11:17 ` Gabriel Scherer
[not found] ` <BANLkTim1wCTkwCNZVh_VMYFNa=wkFvCuFA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-30 11:47 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-05-30 13:54 ` Till Varoquaux
2011-05-30 14:06 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2011-05-30 14:56 ` Daniel Bünzli
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