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 q25B36SR020775 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 12:03:06 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoEDAJacVE9RZ90vgmdsb2JhbAApGrRJIgEBCwsJBxYDJIF9AQEBAwE6RAsCAQgYChQFCzIXAQ0CBAEaDIduBgMHKbd8j3pjBJU+knU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,533,1325458800"; d="scan'208";a="147561265" Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 05 Mar 2012 12:03:01 +0100 Received: from aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20120305110300.KVCZ4985.mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:03:00 +0000 Received: from romulus.metastack.com ([81.102.132.77]) by aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vG.3.00.04.00 201-2196-133-20080908) with ESMTP id <20120305110300.XBEI5924.aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@romulus.metastack.com>; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:03:00 +0000 Received: from remus.metastack.local (remus.metastack.com [172.16.0.1]) by romulus.metastack.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q25B2udX013944 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:02:56 GMT Received: from Remus.metastack.local ([fe80::547c:3c42:e1da:eda2]) by Remus.metastack.local ([fe80::547c:3c42:e1da:eda2%10]) with mapi id 14.01.0355.002; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:02:56 +0000 From: David Allsopp To: Gabriel Scherer , caml-list caml-list Thread-Topic: [Caml-list] [community poll for PR#5312] Do some OCaml Windows users still use the @responsefile feature? Thread-Index: AQHM+r1UGSpVk2WCWE+A12SahXv9a5ZbiMrg Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:02:55 +0000 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [172.16.0.7] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Organization: MetaStack Solutions Ltd. X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 172.16.0.20 X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=JvdXmxIgLJv2/GthKqHpGJEEHukvLcvELVXUanXFreg= c=1 sm=0 a=40hZHaDki8MA:10 a=qSydC32GaHsA:10 a=cTs9vV391PwA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=xqWC_Br6kY4A:10 a=ZOzjf2MOAAAA:8 a=KAlTirn0N2g245BGlhEA:9 a=aG4x9eMXsJnNOI2daOkA:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=H1paHlvfXV0A:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by walapai.inria.fr id q25B36SR020775 Subject: RE: [Caml-list] [community poll for PR#5312] Do some OCaml Windows users still use the @responsefile feature? Gabriel Scherer wrote: > In the process of discussing bug #5312, the caml team would like to know > if people still have use of the @responsefile feature under windows. If > not, it could be removed from the runtime -- that is from all OCaml > programs. > > http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5312 > What do OCaml Windows user think? Do you still rely on @reponsefile? > Please complain if you do -- or your users do -- and don't hesitate to > pass the question to off-list OCaml Windows users. Wasn't aware it existed (in the runtime, I mean). It would seem to be an obsolete feature now - personally, I'd expect to have to implement @responsefile in a program of my own if I had some weird need for a Windows command line utility that accepted arguments over 8K. David