From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 174B57F91C for ; Tue, 24 May 2016 00:43:17 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:Nn5ztBGXpbD4fQcCvEj85Z1GYnF86YWxBRYc798ds5kLTJ75rs2wAkXT6L1XgUPTWs2DsrQf27uQ6PGrADJfqb+681k8M7V0HycfjssXmwFySOWkMmbcaMDQUiohAc5ZX0Vk9XzoeWJcGcL5ekGA6ibqtW1aJBzzOEJPK/jvHcaK1oLsh7H0oMyYOlsXzBOGIppMbzyO5T3LsccXhYYwYo0Q8TDu5kVyRuJN2GlzLkiSlRuvru25/Zpk7jgC86l5r50IeezAcq85Vb1VCig9eyBwvZWz9EqLcQzaw3IGTmQQ2jZFJgXB6BayCpL4qDf7sOZw3SSeOcreQrU9WDDk5KBuHkzGkiACYhIw9mDajvtaGKRJpBPp8xB2xY/ZZMefKfd4bKfcVd4AX2NdX99MWmpKAtXvPMM0E+MdMLMA/MHGrFwUoE77XFH0CQ== Authentication-Results: mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch; spf=None smtp.mailfrom=daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch) identity=pra; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com) identity=helo; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0CoAQAPh0NXf0pWN0pcvxmBd4YRAoFxEgEBAQEBAQEBEQEBCwkLCSEvgi2CFgEBBCNWEAsaAiYCAkcQBhuIJwSyA5FYAQoBAQEjgQGJc4Q/gwErgi4BBI1lilKOKokpDoVbj0wnDYI0HIFNij0BAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0CoAQAPh0NXf0pWN0pcvxmBd4YRAoFxEgEBAQEBAQEBEQEBCwkLCSEvgi2CFgEBBCNWEAsaAiYCAkcQBhuIJwSyA5FYAQoBAQEjgQGJc4Q/gwErgi4BBI1lilKOKokpDoVbj0wnDYI0HIFNij0BAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.26,357,1459807200"; d="scan'208";a="178753534" Received: from mail6.webfaction.com (HELO smtp.webfaction.com) ([74.55.86.74]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 24 May 2016 00:43:15 +0200 Received: from [172.20.10.2] (131.236.197.178.dynamic.wless.lssmb00p-cgnat.res.cust.swisscom.ch [178.197.236.131]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE8020A350F; Mon, 23 May 2016 22:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 00:43:06 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Daniel_B=C3=BCnzli?= To: Martin DeMello Cc: OCaml List Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <61A649C2ACD24F2297F2FEC72F2969DF@erratique.ch> X-Mailer: sparrow 1.6.4 (build 1178) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Bos 0.1.0 Le mardi, 24 mai 2016 =C3=A0 00:17, Martin DeMello a =C3=A9crit : > Do you think this would be a good route towards getting ocamlbuild workin= g seamlessly on windows? Well bos does not do any kind of magic to work well on windows except avoid= ing what needs to be avoided, namely fork(2). Contrary to what it's name su= ggests the Unix library is not a bad OS abstraction layer and works quite w= ell on windows; even more so with the work David Allsopp put into 4.03.=20= =20 At the moment, but it may change in the future, bos is only a more lighter = and simpler way to work with the Unix library correctly. Unix programming c= an be tricky and quite verbose, e.g. to setup program pipelines. Also note = that bos' simpler interface may be not be suitable for all programs, i.e. b= os doesn't replace Unix. IIRC (Gabriel may want to comment) to get ocamlbuild working seamlessly on = windows one needs to get rid of fork, a few pointless shellouts and make pe= ople stop use Sh command specs in their plugins. So I don't think bos neces= sarily helps here, using Unix conservatively in ocamlbuild should do. Best,=20=20 Daniel