From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pBFLKUYh003260 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:20:31 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvcAAGlk6k7RVde2kGdsb2JhbABDqy8IIgEBAQEJCQ0HFAQhgXIBAQEEEgIsARsdAQMMBgULDS4hAQERAQUBHAYTIodgm3IKi2WCa4UIQIhxAgEEC4t5BIg0jEKKbYMJPYQZ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,359,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="123564242" Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com ([209.85.215.182]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 15 Dec 2011 22:20:14 +0100 Received: by eaaf13 with SMTP id f13so4200061eaa.27 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:20:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=8EoJFcHPy77M/BWdD4faHecAjSJC50Y1lCGGcRT/yyA=; b=erX9gLTPHxK2oypKbW3bxim3PVZ6pAnkHkXbbcLdyftVmwwWMBPcD9ZEHyxuVqkncb aw4A+PyiDeVy0n/27Li7PYmZAa7+P0OxIPuFTrcPNOS7/M0Kip9KBccSXMFSE59hw5m/ KJM4uNZnVvcSAZmnzHhvKumz6Olew5i+h3mic= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.205.130.1 with SMTP id hk1mr2340128bkc.68.1323984014261; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:20:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.226.65 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:20:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4EDE33A0.6070004@gmail.com> <1323760512.9833.9.camel@samsung> <4EE711FB.5020602@frisch.fr> <4EE83C26.7090108@frisch.fr> <1323867161.7750.27.camel@samsung> <4EE8DC93.1000806@metaprl.org> <1323884194.7750.58.camel@samsung> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:20:14 -0800 Message-ID: From: Martin DeMello To: Adrien Cc: David Allsopp , Gerd Stolpmann , Aleksey Nogin , "caml-list@inria.fr" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Adrien wrote: > On 15/12/2011, Martin DeMello wrote: >> >> This seems better-maintained: >> >> https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki >> >> At the very least it would be a good starting point. > > I had never heard of that one before and asked people about it. It turns out > it's a collection of binaries already available in other places. That makes > it both uninteresting and interesting. > > It's annoying because it will have all the bugs the other have. > > It's good because it saves work and you don't have to go hunt for various > binaries everywhere: you have them in a single place. > > I think these are definitely fine for programs. Shell scripting shouldn't be > an issue. Libraries of projects like gnuwin32 are probably not as good > however. It shouldn't be an issue to bundle the programs if needed. :-) My mistake, I had the impression from the README that they were maintaining and compiling all those utilities themselves. Also, looking more closely at it, they use bash 2.03, so they clearly aren't trying to keep current. martin