From: Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Donadeo <p.donadeo@gmail.com>
Cc: OCaml mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml Labs
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:34:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP5QFJmMt6Obe95WWBVCWYswLmPN-5ia5sEz_gY_NWViOn5AQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPzAKVCOC0Y_gS6kx3bmf-93SSSTsSnWvSA6dSFWTJznsGa1Zg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Since the topic of package managers has been started, I'd like to
stress a few things about yypkg which I write.
Yypkg is a dumb binary package manager which works everywhere OCaml,
bsdtar and xz work. It doesn't care about what is inside packages, it
works in any directory (not only /), and it's meant for developers
more than for admins (it doesn't try [yet] to provide safe upgrade
paths for the whole universe).
As for other features of yypkg, it's very fast with very small
packages and the core code is only 500 lines of OCaml, comments
included.
That said, for other package managers, you also need to compare what
they're aiming at. Godi is a full-fledge system, odb.ml has a way
smaller scope. I don't know enough about OPAM to comment on it.
As for the library you'd be writing, please, please, forget about
specific package managers when writing it! You only need a few things:
don't make your own build system but use a well-known one and use
pkg-config if it's C/C++ or ocamlfind if it's OCaml. Nothing more.
--
Addrien Nader
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-20 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-20 1:46 Yaron Minsky
2012-10-20 17:31 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-10-20 19:34 ` Adrien [this message]
2012-10-20 20:08 ` Markus Mottl
2012-10-20 21:10 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2012-10-20 23:38 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-10-21 5:42 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-10-23 1:44 ` Francois Berenger
2012-10-21 8:03 ` Ralf Treinen
2012-10-22 10:56 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
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