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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Library installation procedure (for use with OPAM)?
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 21:04:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D26C180DCE9345F887B3C6645AA4CE3D@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A61CF6.50609@glondu.net>

Le lundi, 9 décembre 2013 à 20:41, Stéphane Glondu a écrit :
> You seem to forget all the system package managers (dpkg, rpm, ...).
> While opam does have its advantages, it does not really compete with them.

I don't forget them, I'm pretty sure the combination of opam/.install files can be used for automating the generation of such packages.  
  
> http://xkcd.com/927/

So what's your proposal then ?  

Daniel




  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-09 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-08 20:55 Anthony Tavener
2013-12-09  9:23 ` Stéphane Glondu
2013-12-09 11:13 ` John Whitington
2013-12-09 15:04 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-12-09 15:23   ` Sebastien Mondet
2013-12-09 15:57     ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-12-09 16:39       ` Sebastien Mondet
2013-12-09 17:37         ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-12-09 19:41           ` Stéphane Glondu
2013-12-09 20:04             ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2013-12-09 20:22               ` Stéphane Glondu
2013-12-09 21:04                 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-12-09 21:36                   ` Anthony Tavener
2013-12-10  1:12                     ` Francois Berenger
2013-12-10 14:50       ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-12-10 16:49         ` [Caml-list] [ANN] opam-installer (beta) (was Re: Library installation procedure (for use with OPAM)?) Louis Gesbert

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