From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pBFKlSmm002195 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:47:28 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjQBALBb6k5KfVM2kGdsb2JhbABDqy4IIgEBAQEJCQ0HFAQhgXIBAQEEEgIsARsdAQMMBgULDS4hAQERAQUBHAYTGgiHYJtZCotlgmuFBUCIcQIFC4t5BI09hzmKbYMJPYN5 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,359,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="135631238" Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com ([74.125.83.54]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 15 Dec 2011 21:47:23 +0100 Received: by eekc50 with SMTP id c50so3392461eek.27 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:47:23 -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=bIcR81rzC4Y9vmEuC03VNp9xNQn38Y4bWqnTCKMjxBw=; b=QHEaUxFfX7SRwnFtxLouDzr9NhHxwC8AuUWXJ41hL142h6croYVHcyNX4fAOCjyQuw /SWZXNARofQLQ+uTB1OanlW2wMgpbIfPbNaC4ipEt3W3ghpVEyv60/lcderI+lW91n/P EzsBhHgRUZ81mO8n28+Z90xm6HqFokm0JOGn4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.25.218 with SMTP id a26mr821468ebc.118.1323982043158; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.10.148 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:47:22 -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 21:47:22 +0100 Message-ID: From: Adrien To: Martin DeMello 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 15/12/2011, Martin DeMello wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Adrien wrote: >> On 14/12/2011, David Allsopp wrote: >>> >>> Any particular reason why the GnuWin32 project doesn't already fulfil >>> this >>> requirement (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/)? >> >> It's not maintained well and it's often quite dirty. > > 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. :-) Regards, Adrien Nader